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The Double German Transformation: Changing Male Employment Patterns in East and West Germany
Simonson, Julia; Gordo, Laura Romeu; Kelle, Nadiya - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Before the 90s, men's employment careers in East and West Germany were quite similar, despite their widely differing institutional settings. Before reunification, employment biographies were mainly dominated by full-time employment in both East and West. After 1989 the GDR was incorporated into...
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Sequence analysis with Stata
Brzinsky-Fay, Christian; Kohler, Ulrich; Luniak, Magdalena - In: Stata Journal 6 (2006) 4, pp. 435-460
We describe a general strategy to analyze sequence data and introduce SQ-Ados, a bundle of Stata programs implementing the proposed strategy. The programs include several tools for describing and visualizing sequences as well as a Mata library to perform optimal matching using the Needleman –...
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Zwischen Markt und Moral - Wie wird die deutsche Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft in der Gesellschaft wahrgenommen?
Kayser, Maike; Bohm, Justus; Spiller, Achim - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2011
Die deutsche Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft ist zunehmend im Fokus der öffentlichen Diskussion. Dabei bewegt sie sich in einem Spannungsfeld von marktlichen Anforderungen und gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen. Um Rückschlüsse auf das generelle Meinungsklima zu gewinnen, wird in dieser Arbeit...
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Typology of rural areas in the Central and Eastern European EU new member States
Baum, Sabine; Trapp, Christian; Weingarten, Peter - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2004
dieselben Entwicklungsmaßnahmen benötigen. Die erste Typisierung mithilfe einer Clusteranalyse klassifizierte die NUTS-3 …
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Economic capability of East German regions: Results of a cluster analysis
Kronthaler, Franz - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 6, pp. 739-750
Kronthaler F. (2005) Economic capability of East German regions: results of a cluster analysis, Regional Studies 39 , 739-750. This paper analyses the economic capability of East German regions compared with West German regions. Based on new growth theory and new economic geography, and using...
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Potenziale für eine Verminderung des Fleischkonsums am Beispiel Deutschland und Auswirkungen einer Konsumreduktion in OECD-Ländern auf globale Marktbilanzen und Preise für Nahrungs...
Cordts, Anette; Duman, Nuray; Grethe, Harald; Nitzko, Sina - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2013
Due to its high resource use and negative impacts on the environment (e.g. climate effects and land-use intensity) the production of animal-based food products is increasingly criticized. Moreover, high consumption of meat is linked with negative impacts on consumer health. In light of these...
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Diverse Paths into Childlessness over the Life Course
Mynarska, Monika; Matysiak, Anna; Rybiñska, Anna; … - Instytut Statystyki i Demografii, Szkoła Główna … - 2013
childless women and to reveal the complexity of life paths leading to childlessness. …
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Optimal Matching Analysis and Life-Course Data: The Importance of Duration
Halpin, Brendan - In: Sociological Methods & Research 38 (2010) 3, pp. 365-388
The optimal matching (OM) algorithm is widely used for sequence analysis in sociology. It has a natural interpretation for discrete-time sequences but is also widely used for life-history data, which are continuous in time. Life-history data are arguably better dealt with in terms of episodes...
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Motherhood after the age of 35 in Poland
Rybiñska, Anna - Instytut Statystyki i Demografii, Szkoła Główna … - 2014
trajectories of women who experienced the transition to adulthood during the late 1980's and the early 1990's and have just … women who gave birth before the age of 30 and after the age of 35. The results show how various life careers crisscross over … the life course leading women to late motherhood. …
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A framework for analysing social sequences
King, Thomas - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 1, pp. 167-191
Longitudinal categorical data arise in many diverse areas of the social sciences and methods for its analysis have taken two broad directions. Heuristically, one can attempt to model the state space (i.e., the categories) or the sequence space (i.e., the subjects), typically with event history...
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