How do institutional factors and their interaction with individual resources influence the length of mothers’ interruption durations after childbirth and return-to-work behaviour? This thesis answers this question from a family sociology and labour market perspective, and concentrates on how...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Beschäftigung älterer Mitarbeiter aus betrieblicher Perspektive untersucht. Mittels interdisziplinärer Forschungsansätze wird ein theoretisches Grundgerüst zur Erklärung des Bestandes sowie der Ein- und Austritte älterer Mitarbeiter entwickelt. Anhand...

In this article, we reconstruct the institutional responses of differentEuropean welfare states and their implications for individual life course and employmenttrajectories and the related nation-specific patterns of social inequality. In doingso, our article brings together the combined...

Past sociological inequality research focused on (labor) market outcomes, while neglecting the even more important role of wealth. In our study we investigate the distribution of wealth among the elderly across Europe within the framework of Esping-Andersen’s typology of welfare states. Using...

This article examines the impact of the globalization process on individual life courses and employment careers in modern societies from an international comparative perspective. Empirical results are summarized from the GLOBALIFE research project (Life Courses in the Globalization Process),...