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Working papers

The LIVES Working Papers (ISSN: 2296-1658) is a new social science paper series, published by the LIVES Centre. It is designed to advance scholarship and debate in the growing field of life course research.

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Title Volume Author(s) Key words Year
The Rise of Economic Insecurity in the EU: Concepts and Measures 062 Costanzo Ranci, Andrea Parma, Laura Bernardi, Jason Beckfield Inequality, Poverty, Welfare state, Class, Family, Social structure, LIVES Working Paper, NCCR LIVES 2017
Improving our Understanding of Employer Decision-making Thanks to Factorial Survey Analysis 061 Patrick McDonald Discrimination, Employer surveys, Recruitment, Employer behaviour, Factorial survey analysis, LIVES Working Paper, NCCR LIVES 2017
Vulnerability of Lone Mothers over the Life Course in Switzerland 060 Emanuela Struffolino, Laura Bernardi life course, Health, Employment, Education, Vulnerability, Lone mothers, LIVES Working Paper, NCCR LIVES 2017
Ethnicity, authority and political participation: Expressing political attitudes in contexts of shifting ethnic salience 059.2 Zacharia Bady Political participation, Ethnicity, Social representations, Spiral of silence, LIVES Working Paper, NCCR LIVES 2017
When development is not "right": Understanding the relationship between perceptions, collective action and victimhood 059.1 Sumedha Jayakody Development, Collective action, Conflict, Victim beliefs, LIVES Working Paper, NCCR LIVES 2017
The geography of social links among a young cohort in Switzerland 058 Karen Brändle Social networks, Frequent contact networks, Geographical distance, Network spatial dispersion, LIVES Working Paper, NCCR LIVES 2017
Does Vocational Education Give a Happy Start and a Lousy End to Careers? 057 Maïlys Korber, Daniel Oesch Switzerland, life course, Employment, Apprenticeship, Earnings, Vocational education and training, Specific skills, LIVES Working Paper, NCCR LIVES 2016
Inequality of BMI Dynamics: A Socioeconomic and Gender Perspective 056 Oliver Lipps, S. Zella Switzerland, Age differences, Fixed effects modeling, Gender differences, Germany, SES and individual BMI, USA, LIVES Working Paper, NCCR LIVES 2016
Treatment Versus Regime Effects of Carrots and Sticks 055 Patrick Arni, G. van den Berg, Rafael Lalive Employment, unemployment, Earnings, Active labor market programs, Caseworkers, Policy regime, Treatment effect, LIVES Working Paper, NCCR LIVES 2016
Multidimensionality of the life course, spillover effects, and well-being: How do parenthood and personality affect changes in domain-specific satisfaction? 054 Laura Bernardi, Gina Potarca, Grégoire Bollmann, Jérôme Rossier Well-being, Transition to parenthood, Personality, Spillover effects, life course 2016