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Description of  Cradle to Grave: Life-Course Change in Modern Sweden: Life-course change in modern Sweden

The empirical study of individuals' life-course is one of the most promising areas of research within sociology today. Increased availability of large-scale longitudinal data and improved statistical methods have made it possible to address theoretically relevant questions about events such as entrance into the labour market, job mobility, divorce and death. This book consists of studies capturing the life-course from the cradle to the grave. The research questions include long-term consequences of childhood conditions family formation and school-careers work and parental leave gender discrimination in job promotion divorce and occupational career persistence in poverty and the intriguing question of why the highly educated tend to survive everyone else. Read more