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A life course perspective: women’s childhood background and family formation trajectories in low-fertility South Korea
Despite increasing interest in understanding fertility from a life course perspective, few studies have examined family formation pathways through a...
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Even Now Women Focus on Family, Men on Work: An Analysis of Employment, Marital, and Reproductive Life-Course Typologies in Relation to Change in Health-Related Quality of Life
To a large extent health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is a product of life-course experiences. Therefore, we examined employment, marital, and...
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Gendered late working life trajectories, family history and welfare regimes: evidence from SHARELIFE
Earlier employment choices based on family events in earlier life have an impact up until late working life, especially in welfare regimes that...
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A Life-Course Approach to the Relationship Between Education, Family Trajectory and Late-Life Loneliness Among Older Women in Europe
The aim of this study is to expand our knowledge about the factors that condition late-life loneliness from a longitudinal perspective. We assess the...
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Work trajectories and status attainment process: a study using sequence analysis
Applying sequence analysis methods to work trajectories recorded in the 2012 China Labor Force Dynamics Survey, this study examines the types of work...
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Life Trajectories as Products and Determinants of Social Vulnerability
This chapter aims at uncovering the heuristic potential associated with analyzing family and occupational trajectories holistically for the study of...
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Combining Event History and Sequence Analysis to Study Vulnerability over the Life Course
The life-course paradigm insists on the need to study trajectories and how they unfold over time. Two broad families of methodological strategies are...
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Who Migrates and Who Returns in a Context of Free Mobility? An Analysis of the Reason for Migration, Income and Family Trajectories
The establishment of free mobility in Europe has lowered barriers to movement and given rise to diversity in migration and integration patterns....
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Heterogeneity in Family Life Course Patterns and Intra-Cohort Wealth Disparities in Late Working Age
Considering soaring wealth inequalities in older age, this research addresses the relationship between family life courses and widening wealth...
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Childhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Health in the Second Half of Life: The Role of Gender and Welfare States in the Life Course of Europeans
Resources and reserves influence the development of vulnerability in old age. When individuals lack resources throughout their life trajectories, or...
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History matters: the statistical modelling of the life course
Life course studies have the ambitious goal of relating one portion of the life history to subsequent outcomes, which may themselves be later...
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Synthesis: Combining Methods for the Analysis of Vulnerability Processes Across the Life Course
The analysis of vulnerability processes throughout life implies several methodological difficulties. In this review chapter, we look back on more...
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Structures of the Life Course
This chapter deals with the structures and structuring factors of life courses. First, the tripartite basic structure of the modern life course is...
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A Life-Course Perspective on the Individualization Process in Post-collectivist China
After an introduction to the life-course perspective, this fourth chapter gives an overview of the research design. It details the reasons behind the...
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Life Course Research: A Conceptual Perspective
Whereas the life course has so far been discussed as a research object, the focus here is on the life course in the sense of a research perspective....
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What Is “Life Course Research”?
This chapter first outlines the development of sociological life course research in terms of the history of science. Subsequently, the basic idea of...
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The Elderly in Transnational Family Configurations: Migration, Inter-Generational Relations and Care Support in Switzerland
This chapter examines the following question: How does the old age of individuals within transnational families impact on migration patterns of...
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The Postponement of Family Formation Due to Employment Instability
This chapter reveals that the lengthening of the period of schooling, for the 1980s birth-cohort, delayed their entry into the workforce and...
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The Contribution of the Life-Course Perspective to the Study of Family Relationships: Advances, Challenges, and Limitations
In this chapter, we discuss the contribution of the life-course perspective to the study of changes in family relationships over time. By considering...
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The Long-Term Costs of Family Trajectories: Women’s Later-Life Employment and Earnings Across Europe
The “motherhood earnings penalty” is a well-established finding in many Western countries. However, a divide between mothers and nonmothers might...
