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  • Economics

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  • The life course perspective emphasizes how early-life events and choices shape later outcomes.
  • Understanding the interplay between work and family life is crucial for adult wellbeing.
  • Existing research often examines work or family trajectories in isolation, not their joint effects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the combined influence of employment and family trajectories on later-life wellbeing.
  • To identify specific work-family patterns associated with subjective, relational, and financial wellbeing.
  • To examine gender differences in these associations.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from the Swiss Household Panel, including retrospective life event data and 19 annual waves of wellbeing indicators.
  • Employed sequence analysis to identify distinct work and family trajectories for men and women aged 20-50.
  • Applied Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression models to assess the association between trajectories and wellbeing, controlling for covariates.

Main Results:

  • Joint work and family trajectories are significantly associated with later-life wellbeing, independent of social origin and prior resources.
  • For women, stable full-time employment coupled with traditional family roles predicted higher subjective wellbeing.
  • Childlessness and lack of stable partnerships, especially with weak labor market involvement, were linked to lower financial and subjective wellbeing post-50, particularly for women.

Conclusions:

  • Work and family pathways have a lasting, joint impact on wellbeing, with gendered patterns observed.
  • Women's wellbeing is more sensitive to the interplay of career and family roles than men's.
  • Policy and individual choices regarding work and family over the life course have significant implications for financial and subjective wellbeing in later life.