Beruf und Familie, das geht in Deutschland offenbar noch immer nicht zusammen. Denn 5,6 Millionen Frauen unter 60 Jahren sind nicht erwerbstätig - das sind 28 Prozent. Damit bleibt ein riesiges Potenzial an Wissen und Erfahrung für den Arbeitsmarkt ungenutzt. Den Ursachen dafür geht Jutta...

A new algorithm for clustering life course trajectories is presented and tested with large register data. Life courses are represented as sequences on a monthly timescale for the working-life with an age span from 16–65. A meaningful clustering result for this kind of data provides interesting...

Until the mid-1980s, labour markets in Germany were characterized by a high level of employment stability. Employment biographies of men were dominated by full-time employment in both East and West Germany and were hence quite similar in this respect, despite the two regions' enormously...