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Family Development and High Mobility: Gender Inequality

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High Mobility in Europe

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Having a job that involves long commutes or frequent absences from home challenges individuals in their personal and family lives. High mobility demands time, money and physical and mental energy, which may conflict with family obligations. When the highly mobile person is the parent of young children, domestic work, childcare and household management must often be provided by others, such as the non-mobile partner, relatives and/or professional care-givers in or outside the home.

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  1. University of Edinburgh, UK

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  2. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

    Vincent Kaufmann

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Viry, G., Vincent-Geslin, S., Kaufmann, V. (2015). Family Development and High Mobility: Gender Inequality. In: Viry, G., Kaufmann, V. (eds) High Mobility in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137447388_8

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