Dual and single career couples in Switzerland: Exploring partners’ trajectories

Based on retrospective data from a sample of 602 women and 621 men living in couples surveyed in Switzerland in early 1999, professional trajectories of partners are compared using the optimal matching technique in order to distinguish typical sequence models. We identify dual-career couples and di...

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Main Authors: René Levy, Felix Bühlmann, Eric Widmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bamberg Press 2007-12-01
Series:Journal of Family Research
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Online Access:https://ubp.uni-bamberg.de/jfr/index.php/jfr/article/view/282