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Family matters: gendered patterns in job mobility of early career workers in Switzerland

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This paper examines gendered mobility patterns for early career workers, focusing on family motivated job changes. Using the Swiss Household Panel data (1999-2023) we use multinomial logit, fixed effects, and event study models to understand the impact of family related job mobility on early career workers. The paper shows that compared to men; women are more likely to cite family reasons for job change. Women who change jobs for family reasons face wage stagnation although they earn improvements in specific satisfaction dimensions whilst overall job satisfaction is lower as compared to career motivated job mobility. We also find that job mobility rates for mothers remain constant around childbirth and among mothers who change jobs, family considerations emerge reactively post birth. The results have policy implications for early career job mobility which include subsiding childcare, standardizing flexibility at work and increasing paternity leave periods.

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  • Chirowodza, Joe, 2026. "Family matters: gendered patterns in job mobility of early career workers in Switzerland," MPRA Paper 127809, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

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