Political Economy and Life Course Patterns

Pau Baizan, Francesco Billari and Francesca Michielin
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Pau Baizan: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Francesca Michielin: Universiteit van Amsterdam

Demographic Research, 2002, vol. 6, issue 8, 191-240

Abstract: We explore the strong linkages between macro changes and the dynamics of educational, occupational, family, and residential careers of young Spanish adults born between 1945 and 1974. We review theory and evidence on macro factors: changes in the welfare system, centrality of the family as a service provider, and the changing role of women. We outline some hypotheses of how life course trajectories, and their heterogeneity, change across cohorts. We build data on sequences of states using FFS. In our analysis, we find an increase in the discontinuity of careers and of the heterogeneity among cohort members, especially for employment. Women's careers are becoming more similar to those of men. Family and household formation is postponed, with a limited spread of post-nuclear family forms.

Keywords: life course analysis; sequence analysis; Spain; young adults; postponement of family formation; delayed transition to adulthood (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2002.6.8

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