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Session 9: National Differences and Institutional Conditions. Karl Ulrich Mayer Life Course Research: Theoretical Issues, Empirical Applications and Methodological Problems Sociological Methodology Workshop Series, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan September 20-24, 2004. Outline.
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Session 9:National Differencesand Institutional Conditions Karl Ulrich MayerLife Course Research:Theoretical Issues, Empirical Applications and Methodological ProblemsSociological Methodology Workshop Series, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TaiwanSeptember 20-24, 2004
Outline The State and the Life Course in Advanced Societies Dualistic Life Course Regimes Political Economies: De-Regulated and Coordinated Life Course Regimes: Cross-National Typologies Political Economies and Life Course Outcomes Welfare State Regimes and Institutional Configurations / Life Courses National Institutional Configurations National Life Course Outcomes Life Course Risks and Mobility Regimes: United States, Germany, Sweden Life Course Policies Under Different Welfare-State Regimes Marriage Homogamy and Effects on Labour Force Participation and Income Inequality Globalization, Uncertainty and Changes in Early Life Courses (Mills/Blossfeld 2003)
(Re-)commodification De-commodification Corporatist/ Flexibly Coordinated Deregulated Dualistic Life Course Regimes Closed/ High Trust Open/ Low Trust Political Economy: Interaction of State, Family, Economy
OPEN CLOSED Group Grid Socialist -authoritarian- Welfare State Liberal/ Residual Familistic Scandinavian Continental Federal Etatist USA Italy Spain Sweden Denmark Norway Finland Germany UK France Life Course Regimes:Cross-National Typologies Gendered Life Course Male Breadwinner Male Breadwinner Dual Earner Dual Earner Dual Earner
Welfare State Regimes andInstitutional Configurations / Life Courses Source: Mayer, Karl Ulrich (2001): "The Paradox of Global Social Change and National Path Dependencies: Life course patterns in advanced societies." In: Alison E. Woodward and Martin Kohli (eds.), Inclusions and Exclusions in European Societies. London: Routledge, Pp. 89-110.
Life Course Policies Under Different Welfare-State Regimes Source: Leisering, Lutz and Stephan Leibfried (1999): Time and Poverty in the Welfare State: United Germany in Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 49.
Marriage Homogamy and Effects on Labour Force Participation and Income Inequality