Understanding inequality and how it impacts the lives of young adults
New DIAL Working Paper from Equal Lives’ Zachary Van Winkle and Anette Fasang examines wage gaps over the life course for parents in the United States. New research from Equal Lives team members Zachary Van Winkle and Anette Fasang investigates Continue Reading …
New DIAL Working Paper from Equal Lives’ Anette Fasang examines gender and race inequalities facing people in the United States. New research from Equal Lives co-PI Anette Fasang and Silke Aisenbrey sheds further light on the gender and race inequalities Continue Reading …
Equal Lives research using Finnish data shows that measures of social mobility that concentrate on final outcomes are at risk of underestimating the association between social origin and destination because social inequalities are formed across the life course, not just at the Continue Reading …
How did wealth accumulation change between the baby boomer and millennial generations in the United States? Did millennials really experience more unstable and precarious life courses compared to the baby boomers, as is frequently assumed? And can millennials accumulate less Continue Reading …
The Equal Lives team was out in force for the DIAL Mid Term Conference in Turku, Finland in June 2019. The event was hosted by Equal Lives Co-Investigator Jani Erola and his colleagues at the University of Turku. Germany co-Investigator Continue Reading …
We know that work lives of women are much more complex than men in the UK. While men generally work full-time, women often move in and out of labour market, and between part-time (PT) and full-time (FT) work. How these Continue Reading …
Equal Lives Post-Doc Selçuk Bedük presented some early work from the UK team’s research into how housing wealth is transmitted from one generation to the next at a recent International Symposium on Sequence Analysis and Related Methods in Switzerland. Selçuk Continue Reading …
Members of the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Science and Policy were briefed this week on why equality between men and women is key to tackling income inequality, particularly between families with children. Equal Lives principal investigator Susan Harkness told the Continue Reading …
Equal-Lives is a new research project looking at how inequality impacts the lives of young adults in 5 countries as they had to college or university, start work, establish partnerships and have children. The project is one of 13, which Continue Reading …