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Sequence Analysis and Related Approaches
Innovative Methods and Applications
Av Gilbert Ritschard, Matthias Studer
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
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This open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods for analysing longitudinal data describing life trajectories such as professional careers, family paths, the succession of health statuses, or the time use. The applications as …
Social Dynamics in Swiss Society
Empirical Studies Based on the Swiss Household Panel
Av Robin Tillmann, Marieke Voorpostel m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
567 kr
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Using longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel to zoom in on continuity and change in the life course, this open access book describes how the lives of the Swiss population have changed in terms of health, family circumstances, work, political participation, and migration over the last …
Revisiting Economic Vulnerability in Old Age
Low Income and Subjective Experiences Among Swiss Pensioners
Av Julia Henke
Inbunden, 2020
1094 kr
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This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the experience of economic vulnerability among older adults. Drawing on various fields ranging from happiness, economics to stress research, it integrates assessments from objective and subjective measurement perspectives. The book offers nuanced …
Revisiting Economic Vulnerability in Old Age
Low Income and Subjective Experiences Among Swiss Pensioners
Av Julia Henke
Häftad, 2021
1094 kr
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This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the experience of economic vulnerability among older adults. Drawing on various fields ranging from happiness, economics to stress research, it integrates assessments from objective and subjective measurement perspectives. The book offers nuanced …
Parental Life Courses after Separation and Divorce in Europe
Av Michaela Kreyenfeld, Heike Trappe
Inbunden, 2020
567 kr
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This open access book assembles landmark studies on divorce and separation in European countries, and how this affects the life of parents and children. It focuses on four major areas of post-separation lives, namely (1) economic conditions, (2) parent-child relationships, (3) parent and child …
Parental Life Courses after Separation and Divorce in Europe
Av Michaela Kreyenfeld, Heike Trappe
Häftad, 2020
455 kr
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This open access book assembles landmark studies on divorce and separation in European countries, and how this affects the life of parents and children. It focuses on four major areas of post-separation lives, namely (1) economic conditions, (2) parent-child relationships, (3) parent and child …
Ageing and Migration in a Global Context
Challenges for Welfare States
Av Marion Repetti, Toni Calasanti m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1420 kr
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This book brings together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side, and migration on the other. Both have assumed increasing importance over the course of the 20th and into the 21st century. The book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on …
Ageing and Migration in a Global Context
Challenges for Welfare States
Av Marion Repetti, Toni Calasanti m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
1420 kr
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This book brings together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side, and migration on the other. Both have assumed increasing importance over the course of the 20th and into the 21st century. The book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on …
Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes
A Life Course perspective
Av Nathalie Burnay, Jim Ogg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1312 kr
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This open access book addresses the important and neglected question of older workers who are excluded from the labour market. It challenges post-capitalist discourses of active ageing with a focus on restrictive end-of-career and retirement measures. The book demonstrates how a paradigm shift is …
Family Dynamics over the Life Course
Foundations, Turning Points and Outcomes
Av Janeen Baxter, Jack Lam m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1420 kr
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This open access book examines how families and other social institutions interact to shape outcomes over the life course. It considers how to use research evidence to reduce social disadvantage through translation of evidence to support public policies and programs. The chapters focus on key life …
Doing Transitions in the Life Course
Processes and Practices
Av Barbara Stauber, Andreas Walther m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
551 kr
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This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. Here, transitions are understood as social processes and practices. Leveraging the recent “practice turn” in the social sciences, the contributors analyze how life course transitions are “done.” This book …
Doing Transitions in the Life Course
Processes and Practices
Av Barbara Stauber, Andreas Walther m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
442 kr
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This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. Here, transitions are understood as social processes and practices. Leveraging the recent “practice turn” in the social sciences, the contributors analyze how life course transitions are “done.” This book …
Life Course Perspective on Chinese Youths
From the Transformation of Social Policies to the Individualization of the Transition to Adulthood
Inbunden, 2024
551 kr
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This open access book investigates from a life-course perspective the individualization process and the challenges faced by young adults in post-collectivist China, where people are enjoined to "liberate" (jiefang) their individual capacities, to "rely on themselves" (kao ziji) and to no longer …
Life Course Perspective on Chinese Youths
From the Transformation of Social Policies to the Individualization of the Transition to Adulthood
Häftad, 2024
442 kr
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This open access book investigates from a life-course perspective the individualization process and the challenges faced by young adults in post-collectivist China, where people are enjoined to "liberate" (jiefang) their individual capacities, to "rely on themselves" (kao ziji) and to no longer …
Advances in Sequence Analysis: Theory, Method, Applications
Av Philippe Blanchard, Felix Bühlmann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1420 kr
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This book gives a general view of sequence analysis, the statistical study of successions of states or events. It includes innovative contributions on life course studies, transitions into and out of employment, contemporaneous and historical careers, and political trajectories. The approach …
Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions
Av Claudine Burton-Jeangros, Stéphane Cullati m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
567 kr
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This open access book examines health trajectories and health transitions at different stages of the life course, including childhood, adulthood and later life. It provides findings that assess the role of biological and social transitions on health status over time.The essays examine a wide range …
Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course
Av Michel Oris, Caroline Roberts m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
535 kr
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This open access book details tools and procedures for data collections of hard-to-reach, hard-to-survey populations. Inside, readers will discover first-hand insights from experts who share their successes as well as their failures in their attempts to identify and measure human vulnerabilities …
Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions
Av Claudine Burton-Jeangros, Stéphane Cullati m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
567 kr
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This open access book examines health trajectories and health transitions at different stages of the life course, including childhood, adulthood and later life. It provides findings that assess the role of biological and social transitions on health status over time.The essays examine a wide range …
Advances in Sequence Analysis: Theory, Method, Applications
Av Philippe Blanchard, Felix Bühlmann m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
1420 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book gives a general view of sequence analysis, the statistical study of successions of states or events. It includes innovative contributions on life course studies, transitions into and out of employment, contemporaneous and historical careers, and political trajectories. The approach …
Plight of Older Workers
Labor Market Experience after Plant Closure in the Swiss Manufacturing Sector
Inbunden, 2016
535 kr
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This open access book examines the economic, social, and psychological consequences of manufacturing plant closure at the individual level. Using an original data set of over 1,200 workers from Switzerland who lost their manufacturing jobs after the financial crisis of 2008, the author analyzes the …
Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality
Fathers on Leave Alone
Av Margaret O'Brien, Karin Wall
Inbunden, 2016
551 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book portrays men’s experiences of home alone leave and how it affects their lives and family gender roles in different policy contexts and explores how this unique parental leave design is implemented in these contrasting policy regimes. …
Lone Parenthood in the Life Course
Av Laura Bernardi, Dimitri Mortelmans
Inbunden, 2017
535 kr
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Lone parenthood is an increasing reality in the 21st century, reinforced by the diffusion of divorce and separation. This volume provides a comprehensive portrait of lone parenthood at the beginning of the XXI century from a life course perspective. The contributions included in this volume examine …
Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course
Av Michel Oris, Caroline Roberts m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
535 kr
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This open access book details tools and procedures for data collections of hard-to-reach, hard-to-survey populations. Inside, readers will discover first-hand insights from experts who share their successes as well as their failures in their attempts to identify and measure human vulnerabilities …
Plight of Older Workers
Labor Market Experience after Plant Closure in the Swiss Manufacturing Sector
Häftad, 2018
535 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This open access book examines the economic, social, and psychological consequences of manufacturing plant closure at the individual level. Using an original data set of over 1,200 workers from Switzerland who lost their manufacturing jobs after the financial crisis of 2008, the author analyzes the …
Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality
Fathers on Leave Alone
Av Margaret O'Brien, Karin Wall
Häftad, 2018
551 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book portrays men’s experiences of home alone leave and how it affects their lives and family gender roles in different policy contexts and explores how this unique parental leave design is implemented in these contrasting policy regimes. …
Lone Parenthood in the Life Course
Av Laura Bernardi, Dimitri Mortelmans
Häftad, 2018
535 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Lone parenthood is an increasing reality in the 21st century, reinforced by the diffusion of divorce and separation. This volume provides a comprehensive portrait of lone parenthood at the beginning of the XXI century from a life course perspective. The contributions included in this volume examine …
Social Dynamics in Swiss Society
Empirical Studies Based on the Swiss Household Panel
Av Robin Tillmann, Marieke Voorpostel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
551 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Using longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel to zoom in on continuity and change in the life course, this open access book describes how the lives of the Swiss population have changed in terms of health, family circumstances, work, political participation, and migration over the last …
Sequence Analysis and Related Approaches
Innovative Methods and Applications
Av Gilbert Ritschard, Matthias Studer
Inbunden, 2018
551 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods for analysing longitudinal data describing life trajectories such as professional careers, family paths, the succession of health statuses, or the time use. The applications as …
Negotiating the Life Course
Stability and Change in Life Pathways
Inbunden, 2012
1094 kr
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Pathways through the life course have changed considerably in recent decades. Many of our assumptions about leaving home, starting new relationships and having children have been turned upside down. It is now almost as common to have children prior to marriage as afterwards, and certainly much more …
Negotiating the Life Course
Stability and Change in Life Pathways
Häftad, 2014
1094 kr
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Pathways through the life course have changed considerably in recent decades. Many of our assumptions about leaving home, starting new relationships and having children have been turned upside down. It is now almost as common to have children prior to marriage as afterwards, and certainly much more …
