Understanding inequality and how it impacts the lives of young adults
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 …
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 …