Facing Trajectories from School to Work
Towards a Capability-Friendly Youth Policy in Europe
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Open AccessIs Democracy Associated with Reduction of Poverty, Child Mortality and Child Deprivation in Low-income Countries?
Is democracy related to lower poverty rates and better living conditions for children in develo** countries? Multiple sources have confirmed that living conditions in low- and middle-income countries have im...
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Open AccessSex differences in dementia: on the potentially mediating effects of educational attainment and experiences of psychological distress
Old-age dementias are known to disproportionally affect women as well as individuals with low educational attainment. The higher lifetime risk of dementia among women is usually attributed to their longer life...
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Labour Market Trajectories and Young Europeans’ Capabilities to Avoid Poverty, Social Exclusion and Dependency: A Comparative Analysis of 23 European Countries
Youth in 23 European countries are compared with regard to their risk for deprivation and poverty, taking into account individual labour histories. The risk for deprivation is negatively correlated with the GD...
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Work Beyond Pension Age in Sweden: Does a Prolonged Work Life Lead to Increasing Class Inequalities Among Older People?
This chapter investigates work beyond pension age in Sweden. The focus is on class inequalities among older workers and whether or not class-related inequalities have increased during the first decade of the 2...
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Would Active Labour Market Policies Enhance Youth Capability for Work in Europe?
Activation has become one of the keys to integrate people into the labour market at the European level. The implementation of these policy lines raises acute questions as to whether the conditions are actually...
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The Multi-dimensional Characteristics of Wellbeing: How Different Aspects of Wellbeing Interact and Do Not Interact with Each Other
Because wellbeing is a multi-varied and dynamic phenomenon, social scientists need to better understand how different aspects of people’s wellbeing are tied together and how these ties differ between individua...
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Leaving the labour market: the impact of exit routes from employment to retirement on health and wellbeing in old age
The study analyses whether and to what degree specific routes into retirement affect older people, i.e. the relationship between heterogeneous exit patterns and post-retirement health and wellbeing. We used lo...
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Sweden: The Impact of Policy and Labour Market Transformation
The discussion of in-work poverty (IWP) can be related to two interlinked perspectives: the policy perspective and the labour market perspective. The policy perspective relates to the ‘making work pay’ and ‘wo...
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Accumulation of Welfare Problems in a Longitudinal Perspective
The central aim of the present paper is to analyse the degree to which welfare problems accumulate over time and to what extent such an accumulation is related to class position and household formation. We uti...
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Doing Gender While Doing Couple: Concluding Remarks
It has long been observed that money plays a central role in couple and family relationships (Pahl 1989; Zelizer 1989). Money ties people together, causes conflicts and injustices, allows independence and crea...
