The empirical study of individuals' life-course is one of the
most promising areas of research within sociology today. Increased
availability of large-scale longitudinal data and improved
statistical methods have made it possible to address theoretically
relevant questions about events such as entrance into the labour
market, job mobility, divorce and death.
This book consists of studies capturing the life-course from the
cradle to the grave. The research questions include long-term
consequences of childhood conditions; family formation and
school-careers; work and parental leave; gender discrimination in
job promotion; divorce and occupational career; persistence in
poverty; and the intriguing question of why the highly educated
tend to survive everyone else.
The studies shed light on the relation between family and work,
on gender inequality, social class differences, welfare state
redistribution, and labour market processes. They do this in a
particular context, namely Sweden in the post-war period that is,
during the decades that formed one of the most advanced welfare
states in modern history. One chapter provides a descriptive
account of institutional and life-course change in Sweden during
that period.
Most authors use the Swedish level-of-living surveys, a unique
data set providing ample opportunity to study social processes in a
longitudinal perspective. The book will, therefore, be of relevance
to those with interests in the Swedish welfare state as well as
those with theoretical and reseacrh interests in the reproduction
of inequality
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