Understanding inequality and how it impacts the lives of young adults
In a new DIAL Working Paper, Equal Lives researchers Zachary Van Winkle and Thomas Leopold examine the poverty risk for women up to six years following divorce in relation to the number of children in the household in the year of divorce. Continue Reading …
Research looking at whether policies aimed at supporting work-family balance for families help minimise gender gaps in earnings in Finland is featured in the latest Issue of Discover Society. Continue Reading …
New research published in Demography shows that when an individual has a baby can be directly linked to the fertility decisions not only of their closest family and colleagues, but of wider networks. Continue Reading …
Episode 1 of our Equal Lives Series of the DIAL Podcast discusses research from Marika Jalovaara and Anette Fasang on Family Life Courses, Gender and Mid-Life earnings. Continue Reading …
Anette Fasang presents new findings from the Equal Lives project at a at the Berlin Social Science Centre workshop on Demography and Inequality. Continue Reading …
Research from Zachary Van Winkle and Anette Fasang investigates the wage penalties and premiums for parents and how they play out over their lives depending on how many children they have and their race and gender. Continue Reading …
Research from Anette Fasang and Silke Aisenbrey sheds further light on the gender and race inequalities facing people who are combining work and looking after a family. Continue Reading …
Research by Akleksi Karhula and colleagues 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. Continue Reading …
Did millennials really experience more unstable and precarious life courses compared to the baby boomers, as is frequently assumed? Zachary Van Winkle blogs on early findings from the Equal Lives project. 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 …