Understanding inequality and how it impacts the lives of young adults
Equal Lives researchers Zafer Büyükkeçeci and Thomas Leopold have published new research on the family formation influence that siblings have on each other. This study looked at whether getting married, having children or getting divorced is likely to influence a sibling Continue Reading …
Equal Lives PI Susan Harkness has produced a blog for the Economics Observatory about widening inequality between men and women during the COVOD-19 pandemic. In it she explains that while men and women’s employment has suffered, mothers have been hit Continue Reading …
Anette Fasang shares Equal Lives research findings at DIAL Workshop Research from the Equal Lives project was shared at an online DIAL workshop looking at institutional influences on inequalities over the lifecourse. Professor Anette Fasang from Humboldt University and co-PI Continue Reading …
Research from the Equal Lives project has shown that family lives have become more complex in the Nordic countries. It also shows a moderate increase in employment instability among the youngest generations across most countries. It is a common perception Continue Reading …
New DIAL Working Paper from Equal lives’ Zafer Büyükkeçeci investigates whether divorcees who re-marry play a role in their former spouse’s decisions to remarry also. Using administrative data from Statistics Netherlands, Zafer looked at divorcees who remarried or lived with a Continue Reading …
Zafer Büyükkeçeci blogs about his new research looking at how people living in different countries have reacted and responded to the pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting health, social, mental, and economic well-being worldwide. Cooperating, by taking precautions such as Continue Reading …
Newly-published research from Equal Lives’ Zafer Büyükkeçeci examines different country responses to the COVID-19 pandemic The research used the COVID-19 Attitudes and Beliefs survey to look at the anxiety levels and behaviour responses of nearly 100,000 people in 54 countries Continue Reading …
Equal Lives research uses new method to see whether employment life-courses converge after reunification in the former East Germany and West Germany. Assessing and analysing the different paths that groups of people follow in life and comparing these in a Continue Reading …
In the third Episode of our podcast looking at research emerging from the Equal Lives project, we talk to Zafer Büyükkeçeci from Humboldt University in Berlin and Professor Vered Kraus from the University of Haifa about their research, Work and family Continue Reading …
New DIAL Working Paper from Equal Lives shows Jewish Israeli women have access to more advantaged lives than their Palestinian counterparts New Equal Lives research examining the work and family life courses of young Jewish and Palestinian Israeli women shows Continue Reading …