Understanding inequality and how it impacts the lives of young adults
by Chris Garrington New research from the Equal Lives project suggests initiatives to support disadvantaged families should focus on supporting job success rather than on marriage guidance. Government programmes which have targeted individual families to support relationship stability may Continue Reading …
New paper from Equal Lives’ Zachary Van Winkle and Anette Fasang shows place more important than time in unstable family and working lives Across Europe the stability of people’s working and family lives largely stayed the same from generation to 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …