Jan O Jonsson, Colin Mills

Cradle to Grave: Life-Course Change in Modern Sweden

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sociologypress
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781903457030
• ISBN-10: 1903457033
• Artikelnr.: 31077068

Autorenporträt

Jan O. Jonsson is Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University. Colin Mills is a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Towards a post-Fordist life-course regime? Generational changes in
transitions and volatility 2 The long shadow of socioeconomic conditions in
childhood: do they affect class inequalities in mortality? 3 Family
formation and participation in higher education: crosscutting life events?
4 Giving birth without giving up: return to employment and return to work
amongst women 5 The sooner the better? Parental leave duration and women's
occupational career 6 Divorce and labour-market outcomes: do women suffer
or gain? 7 Gendered promotion processes in the labour market: do
inequalities accrue or attenuate? 8 What you see is not always what you
get: imperfect information in the job-worker matching process, and its
consequences for the attainment of occupational prestige 9 Household income
dynamics: mobility out of and into low income over the life-course 10 Why
do graduates live longer? Education, occupation, family and mortality
during the 1990s 11 The Swedish Level-of-Living Surveys: a general overview
and description of the event history data