In this article the authors draw attention to most recent and promising developments of sequence analysis. Taking methodological in life course sociology as starting point, detail complementary strength analysis field. They argue that advantages were developed response criticism original work, particularly optimal matching This debate arose over past two decades culminated 2000 exchange Sociological Methods & Research. The triggered a "second wave" techniques led new technical...

This article uses sequence analysis to examine how gender inequality in work-family trajectories unfolds from early adulthood until middle age two different welfare state contexts. Results based on the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and German Education Panel Study demonstrate that Germany, all are highly gender-specific irrespective social class. In contrast, patterns interplay across life course United States are, overall, less gendered, but they differ widely by fact, characterized...

This article marks the occasion of Social Science Research's 50th anniversary by reflecting on progress sequence analysis (SA) since its introduction into social sciences four decades ago, with focuses developments SA thus far in and potential future directions. The application sciences, especially life course research, has mushroomed last decade a half. Using analogy, we examined birth childhood (the first wave), adolescence young adulthood second mature paper. paper provides summary (1)...

Childlessness has increased in many European countries. Partnerships and parenthood are obviously closely related, but there is relatively little knowledge on how childlessness linked to contemporary union dynamics that involve high rates of separation

Visualization is a potentially powerful tool for exploration and complexity reduction of categorical sequence data. This article discusses currently available visualization against established criteria graphical excellence in the visual display quantitative information. Existing graphs fall into two groups: They either represent sequences or summarize them. The authors propose relative frequency plots as an informative way graphing data bridge between representation summarization graphs....

Journal Article Retirement Patterns and Income Inequality Get access Anette Eva Fasang Humboldt-University Berlin & Social Science Research Center E-mail: anette.fasang@hu-berlin.de. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Forces, Volume 90, Issue 3, March 2012, Pages 685–711, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/sor015 Published: 04 May 2012

This article analyses women's retirement income in the context of two distinct welfare states. In addition to employment history, we consider their marital history over life course as an important determinant income. We use longitudinal data for women born between 1930 and 1940 from German Socio-Economic Panel British Household Study. The results shed light on mechanisms through which states transmit gender inequality into retirement. both countries, single have higher than continuously...

Abstract There is a long-standing debate on whether extensive Nordic family policies have the intended equalizing effect and gender differences in economic outcomes. This article compares how combination of events across life course associated with annual accumulated earnings at mid-life for men women an egalitarian welfare state. Based Finnish register data (N = 12,951), we identify seven typical courses from ages 18 to 39 link them using sequence cluster analysis regression methods....

We analyze the impact of economic globalization and industry growth on complexity early work careers in Germany. conceptualize as absolute number employer changes, regularity order job variability durations spent different employment states. Results from empirical analyses based German Life History Study ( N = 5453) show only a small increase over last decades, but there was shift prevalence career patterns. This suggests that effects might be counteracted or modified by other social changes...

This article examines how network closure among parents affects adolescents’ educational attainment. First, we introduce a distinction between informal and school‐based closure. Second, investigate whether the effect of parental varies across social contexts. Findings from National Longitudinal Study Adolescent Health (Add Health) multilevel models show that modestly impacts outcomes. Moreover, benefits in parent networks are contingent on context. Closure only attainment low‐poverty...

Whether employment life courses have become more unstable and complex across the twentieth century has been a prominent topic in academic public debate. Yet, empirical evidence on longer-term trajectories how they changed cohorts beyond single-country analyses is sparse. In this paper, we propose new methodological approach that includes measures developed sequence analysis to summarize complexity cross-classified multilevel model by cohort country. This allows us quantify describe change of...

There has been much debate whether work and family lives became more complex in past decades, that is, exhibiting frequent transitions uncertainty. Van Winkle Fasang (2017) (2018) first benchmarked change employment

First evidence shows that lockdown and confinement measures were associated with a more egalitarian gender division of housework in the United Kingdom. However, we know little about how adjusted different phases p

Processes that unfold over individuals’ life courses are often associated with inequalities later in life. The literature lacks methodological approaches to analyze outcomes between groups, for example, women and men, a life-course-sensitive manner. We propose combination of methods—of sequence analysis, which enables us study the multidimensional complexity Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition. This approach allows distinguish share groups is due group-specific from returns similar...

Since the 1970s people have retired increasingly early across advanced societies. Parallel to this trend, numerous institutional retirement pathways evolved, such as bridge unemployment and pre-retirement schemes. This article compares in Britain Germany show how individuals progress through these pathways. The analysis uses longitudinal data recent innovations sequence capture sequential nature of a series transitions over time. As expected, prominent are mirrored individual trajectories....

Sibling studies have been widely used to analyze the impact of family background on socioeconomic and, a lesser extent, demographic outcomes. We contribute this literature with novel research design that combines sibling comparisons and sequence analysis longitudinal family-formation trajectories siblings unrelated persons. This allows us scrutinize in more rigorous way whether similarity exists siblings' shared characteristics, such as parental education early childhood structure, can...

The relationship between processes and time-varying covariates is of central theoretical interest in addressing many social science research questions. On the one hand, event history analysis (EHA) has been chosen method to study these kinds relationships when outcomes can be meaningfully specified as simple instantaneous events or transitions. other sequence (SA) made increasing inroads into sciences analyze trajectories holistic “process outcomes.” We propose an original combination two...

Abstract Objective We map the magnitude, timing, and persistence of parenthood wage gaps in life course for Black, Hispanic, White men women United States. Background Previous research indicates that penalties only persist into mid‐life mothers with three or more children without distinguishing by race. The timing age range which occur fathers different racial backgrounds are unknown. develop a theoretical framework based on gender‐ race‐specific interplay between labor market dynamics...

This chapter introduces Sequence Analysis (SA) as a set of tools for examining sequential categorical data, focusing on temporal processes. These processes are crucial in sociology and other social sciences, they study how individuals, families, or organizations change over time engage different activities one more domains. SA allows effectively describing visualizing these processes, helping identify regularities anomalies the number, duration, timing events states. patterns can be linked...

Previous studies suggest that in some countries socioeconomic differences family formation are highly gendered, whereas gender-neutral patterns reported other countries. Most previous focus on single events and therefore it is unclear how