"Life course dynamics and the mechanisms of social inequality"

Workshop & seminar, Turku, Finland, August 29th – September 2nd, 2011

Turku Center for Welfare Research (TCWR) organizes workshop and seminar on the new endeavors and common problems in life course research, with a special emphasis on the register data applications.

The three day workshop is targeted to PhD students and researchers. It consists of lectures and computer rehearsals. The methods covered are event history models and sequence analysis. Previous experience on Stata is required.

The two day seminar following the workshop includes keynote speeches by Karl Ulrich Mayer (Leibniz-Gemeinschaft), Elizabeth Thomson (Stockholm University & University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Wout Ultee (University of Nijmegen), together with paper presentations by the leading life course researchers.

The workshop and seminar are free for students accepted for the workshop along with faculty members of the organizing institutions and the research network.

For others the participation fee for the workshop and seminar is 150 € and the seminar only 50 €. The price includes lunch for each day. Additional cost for the celebratory dinner on Thursday is 80 € per person. The workshop & seminar takes place in Publicum building at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Turku.

Please register your participation to matti.nasi@utu.fi (deadline for the registration is May 31st) . There are only 20 seats available in the workshop with a priority given to the students and faculty of the organizing institutions. Students participating in the workshop can earn 6 ECTS credit points by completing the assigned practice work given in the training sessions. More details on this is are made available at the beginning of the workshop.

The workshop and seminar are joint efforts of TCWR, the research project “Life-course, disadvantageous experiences and socioeconomic inheritance?, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and NordForsk research network “Register-based Life Course Studies: Sociological, Demographic and Economic Perspectives?.

Program
Workshop 29th – 31st August

Thursday September 1st 2011

9:00-9:30 Morning coffee + opening words

9:30-11:00 Session I

Erik Bihagen: Personality and transitions to the labour market elite

Juho Härkönen: Cohort patterns in occupational attainment and career progression in Sweden and West Germany

Mads Meier Jaegr: The Dynamics of Cultural Capital Investments

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12.45 Session II

Signe Hald Andersen: Children at the margin: Should we prefer preventive measures over fostercare

Laura Kestilä & Pasi Moisio: Life-course risk factors for disadvantage in early adulthood

Anette Fasang: Institutional Change and Family Formation

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:15 Keynote I Karl Ulrich Mayer: Life Courses and Social Policies

Commentators

15:15-15:45 Coffee break

15:45-17:15 Session III

Marika Jalovaara: Economic resources and the dissolution of cohabitations and marriage

Eva Österbacka: Intergenerational time use correlation

Angela Dupsjöbacka: Are minority names really harmful? New evidence from siblings comparisons

19:00 Dinner

Friday September 2nd 2011

9:30-10:00 Morning coffee

10:00-11:15 Keynote II

Elizabeth Thomson

Commentators

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-13:00 Session IV

Torkild Lyngstad: Have fertility intentions become harder to realize over the last thirty years?

Sunnee Billingsley: Red Belt Fertility: Regional Variation in Second Birth Rates in Russia

Jenny Torssander: Education and mortality

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Keynote III

Wout Ultee: The main event? To what extent do life history data show that cross-sectional data already answer sociology's main questions? Closing discussion

Seminar 1st – 2nd September

Keynotes: Karl Ulrich Mayer (Leibniz-Gemeinschaft), Elizabeth Thomson (Stockholm University & University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Wout Ultee (University of Nijemegen)

Paper presentations: Signe Hald Andersen (Rockwool Funden), Erik Bihagen (University of Stockholm), Sunnee Billingsley (University of Stockholm), Jani Erola (University of Turku), Anette Fasang (Yale University), Juho Härkönen (University of Stockholm), Mads Meier Jaeger (Aarhus University), Marika Jalovaara (University of Helsinki), Laura Kestilä & Pasi Moisio (National Institute for Health and Welfare), Torkild Lyngstad (University of Oslo), Eva Österbacka (Åbo Akademi)

Organizers: Turku Center for Welfare Research & Life-course, disadvantageous experiences and socioeconomic inheritance & University of Turku, Faculty of Social Sciences & Register-based Life Course Studies: Sociological, Demographic and Economic Perspectives & Nordic Centre of Exellence: Reassessing the Nordic Welfare Model

For further details see:

University of Turku, Economic Sociology's webpage for the Life Course Dynamics seminar


Keynote speakers:

Prof. Karl Ulrich Mayer

Prof. Elizabeth Thomson

Prof. Wout Ultee


Organizers:

Turku Center for Welfare Research

Life-course, disadvantageous experiences and socioeconomic inheritance

University of Turku, Faculty of Social Sciences

Register-based Life Course Studies: Sociological, Demographic and Economic Perspectives

Nordic Centre of Excellence: Reassessing the Nordic Welfare Model