LIVES Impact (ISSN: 2297-6124) publishes regularly briefs with policy-relevant research findings from studies conducted at the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research LIVES (LIVES Centre). It is aimed at professionals, public officials and representatives active in social policy and related fields.
Series editor
Dario Spini
Email: dario.spini@unil.ch
Using participatory research and a web-based interactive map to promote health
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Nr 17 - December 2022
Assessing multidimensional complexity in home care:
Congruencies and discrepancies between patients and nurses
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Nr 16 - December 2022
Labour Market Integration:
Refugees and Asylum Seekers Face Ongoing Integration Challenges
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Nr 15 - August 2022
Regularising Undocumented Migrant Workers:
What Does it Mean for Their Well-Being?
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Nr 14 - June 2022
Life-long impact of disadvantaged socioeconomic conditions in childhood on health in old age
What difference does the welfare state make to improve healthy ageing?
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Nr 13 - January 2022
Special edition
Policy actions aimed at homelessness: half and mini measures
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Special Issue N°4 - December 2020
Special edition
The impact of COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020 on the mental health of the population
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Special Issue N°3 - October 2020
Edition spéciale
Vulnérabilité familiale en période de confinement
Quelles pistes de résilience ?
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Special Issue No2 - Juillet 2020
Special Issue
How to mobilise protective, supportive and resilient behaviours effectively in times of crisis?
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Special Issue No1 - April 2020
Vocational versus general education
Employment and Earnings over the life course in Switzerland
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No 12 - May 2020
Rehabilitation before pension?
A longitudinal study sheds light on Swiss Disability insurance reforms
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No 11 - October 2019
Mental health through internet-based intervention
Using LIVIA to overcome grief
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No 10 - July 2019
Unemployement and its medium - to long - term effects
A reason to rethink labour market integration support schemes?
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No 9 - November 2018
Historoically situated, avoidable and socially unequal
A demographic perspective on young adult excess mortality in Switzerland
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No 8 - June 2018
Lone parenthood in the life course
A future challenge for socialy policy?
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No 7 - January 2018
The "gender factory"
or how the Swiss education system (re)produces inequalities between women & men
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No 6 - December 2017
Career adaptabilities
Using contextual and psychological resources for successful work transitions
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No 5 - June 2017
Will fathers in Switzerland soon have access to leave?
Insights into the gender equality potential of leave policies
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No 4 - March 2017
Utilizing networks to find employment?
Social networks as a labour market integration tool for unemployed and disadvantaged people
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No 3 - Août 2016
Retirement Provision 2020 : A Reform Towards More Social Inequality? "Active Ageing" and Older People of Migrant Background
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No 2 - June 2016
The life-course perspective in social policy
Why and how it could be useful ?
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No 1 - November 2015
