Cristina Solera
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861349309
- eISBN:
- 9781447304319
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861349309.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter outlines the methods, datasets, variables, and techniques used for the empirical analyses described and discussed in the rest of the book. It starts by illustrating the nature and ...
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This chapter outlines the methods, datasets, variables, and techniques used for the empirical analyses described and discussed in the rest of the book. It starts by illustrating the nature and advantages of a lifecourse perspective and of longitudinal data compared to cross-sectional data. It also briefly describes the different longitudinal designs in order to show when and why an event-oriented observation design is more suitable. The following section focuses on the specific method used in the empirical analyses, namely discrete-time logit models. It then addresses the problems of sample selection and unobserved heterogeneity, and discusses how they are dealt with in these models. The next section describes the two datasets, the sample of women used and the variables chosen. The final section links the previous two chapters with the current chapter and the following two by formulating hypotheses on what has changed across cohorts in the types and correlates of women's work histories in Italy and Britain.Less
This chapter outlines the methods, datasets, variables, and techniques used for the empirical analyses described and discussed in the rest of the book. It starts by illustrating the nature and advantages of a lifecourse perspective and of longitudinal data compared to cross-sectional data. It also briefly describes the different longitudinal designs in order to show when and why an event-oriented observation design is more suitable. The following section focuses on the specific method used in the empirical analyses, namely discrete-time logit models. It then addresses the problems of sample selection and unobserved heterogeneity, and discusses how they are dealt with in these models. The next section describes the two datasets, the sample of women used and the variables chosen. The final section links the previous two chapters with the current chapter and the following two by formulating hypotheses on what has changed across cohorts in the types and correlates of women's work histories in Italy and Britain.
Catherine Durose, Stephen Greasley, and Liz Richardson
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847422170
- eISBN:
- 9781447301677
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847422170.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This book brings together recent empirical analyses of renegotiating the roles of citizens and their relationships to public governance in different contexts. It looks at the different ways in which ...
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This book brings together recent empirical analyses of renegotiating the roles of citizens and their relationships to public governance in different contexts. It looks at the different ways in which citizens are conceptualised in local governance; the new demands they are facing from local governance; and how they themselves perceive and respond to these changes and demands. The book reports empirical and applied citizen-centred research in local governance including multiculturalism, economic migration, community cohesion, housing markets, neighbourhoods, faith organisations, behaviour change, and children's services, to establish a differentiated, contemporary view of the ways that citizens are constituted at the local level today.Less
This book brings together recent empirical analyses of renegotiating the roles of citizens and their relationships to public governance in different contexts. It looks at the different ways in which citizens are conceptualised in local governance; the new demands they are facing from local governance; and how they themselves perceive and respond to these changes and demands. The book reports empirical and applied citizen-centred research in local governance including multiculturalism, economic migration, community cohesion, housing markets, neighbourhoods, faith organisations, behaviour change, and children's services, to establish a differentiated, contemporary view of the ways that citizens are constituted at the local level today.
Diane J. Macunovich
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226500836
- eISBN:
- 9780226500928
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226500928.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Microeconomics
Between 1965 and 1985, the Western world and the United States in particular experienced a staggering amount of social and economic change. This book argues that the common thread underlying all ...
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Between 1965 and 1985, the Western world and the United States in particular experienced a staggering amount of social and economic change. This book argues that the common thread underlying all these changes was the post-World War II baby boom—in particular, the passage of the baby boomers into young adulthood. The author focuses on the pervasive effects of changes in “relative cohort size,” the ratio of young to middle-aged adults, as masses of young people tried to achieve the standard of living to which they had become accustomed in their parents' homes despite dramatic reductions in their earning potential relative to that of their parents. She presents the results of detailed empirical analyses that illustrate how varied and important cohort effects can be on a wide range of economic indicators, social factors, and even on more tumultuous events including the stock market crash of 1929, the “oil shock” of 1973, and the “Asian flu” of the 1990s. The book demonstrates that no discussion of business or economic trends can afford to ignore the effects of population.Less
Between 1965 and 1985, the Western world and the United States in particular experienced a staggering amount of social and economic change. This book argues that the common thread underlying all these changes was the post-World War II baby boom—in particular, the passage of the baby boomers into young adulthood. The author focuses on the pervasive effects of changes in “relative cohort size,” the ratio of young to middle-aged adults, as masses of young people tried to achieve the standard of living to which they had become accustomed in their parents' homes despite dramatic reductions in their earning potential relative to that of their parents. She presents the results of detailed empirical analyses that illustrate how varied and important cohort effects can be on a wide range of economic indicators, social factors, and even on more tumultuous events including the stock market crash of 1929, the “oil shock” of 1973, and the “Asian flu” of the 1990s. The book demonstrates that no discussion of business or economic trends can afford to ignore the effects of population.
Nanna Mik-Meyer
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781526110282
- eISBN:
- 9781526128638
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526110282.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter presents excerpts from two of the author’s previous empirical studies on welfare encounters. The aim of presenting these empirical analyses is to illustrate how to study the power of ...
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This chapter presents excerpts from two of the author’s previous empirical studies on welfare encounters. The aim of presenting these empirical analyses is to illustrate how to study the power of particular contexts in the welfare encounter. By presenting these two empirical cases, the chapter shows how diagnoses and systems of categorisation reflect a larger environment (a concept by Hall, which here refers to bureaucratic principles, market values, NPM techniques and norms from the field of psychology) and produce particular behavioural expectations of both citizens and welfare workers. The first case shows how doctors (GPs and municipal medical consultants), caseworkers and citizens negotiate the diagnoses of stress and depression, and the second case (greatly inspired by Goffman’s work) shows how norms from the field of psychology and the bureaucracy affect the evaluation of whether or not a citizen is suited for early retirement benefits.Less
This chapter presents excerpts from two of the author’s previous empirical studies on welfare encounters. The aim of presenting these empirical analyses is to illustrate how to study the power of particular contexts in the welfare encounter. By presenting these two empirical cases, the chapter shows how diagnoses and systems of categorisation reflect a larger environment (a concept by Hall, which here refers to bureaucratic principles, market values, NPM techniques and norms from the field of psychology) and produce particular behavioural expectations of both citizens and welfare workers. The first case shows how doctors (GPs and municipal medical consultants), caseworkers and citizens negotiate the diagnoses of stress and depression, and the second case (greatly inspired by Goffman’s work) shows how norms from the field of psychology and the bureaucracy affect the evaluation of whether or not a citizen is suited for early retirement benefits.
