1st Edition
Cradle to Grave: Life-Course Change in Modern Sweden
1 Towards a post-Fordist life-course regime? Generational changes in transitions and volatility 2 The long shadow of socioeconomic conditions in childhood: do they affect class inequalities in mortality? 3 Family formation and participation in higher education: crosscutting life events? 4 Giving birth without giving up: return to employment and return to work amongst women 5 The sooner the better? Parental leave duration and women’s occupational career 6 Divorce and labour-market outcomes: do women suffer or gain? 7 Gendered promotion processes in the labour market: do inequalities accrue or attenuate? 8 What you see is not always what you get: imperfect information in the job-worker matching process, and its consequences for the attainment of occupational prestige 9 Household income dynamics: mobility out of and into low income over the life-course 10 Why do graduates live longer? Education, occupation, family and mortality during the 1990s 11 The Swedish Level-of-Living Surveys: a general overview and description of the event history data
Biography
Jan O. Jonsson is Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University. Colin Mills is a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
