Quantitative Methods in the
Social Sciences 2
LABOUR MARKET CHANGES AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION IN THE LIFE COURSE
23-25 October 2008
Oslo Congress Centre (Folkets Hus)
The aim of the first annual seminar arranged by the QMSS2 Lifecourse group was to bring together leading European scientists and promising young researchers who are using cutting-edge quantitative methods to examine labour market participation and social exclusion processes.
Examples of topics covered are school-to-work transitions, labour supply and retirement behaviour, unemployment, social exclusion, assimilation of immigrants, and social mobility.
PROGRAMME
| Thursday 23 October | |
| Session 1 (Chair: Knut Røed) | |
| 14.00-14.15 | Opening/welcome |
| 14.15-15.15 | The flexibilization of employment in Germany: Who suffers? And how did it affect the risk of Sandra Buchholz and Hans-Peter Blossfeld |
| 15.15-16.15 | The Impacts of Labor Market Policies on Job Search Behavior Knut Røed |
| 16.30-17.30 | Are Short-Term Jobs Springboards to Long-Term Jobs? A New Approach Bart Cockx |
| Friday 24 October | |
| Session 2 (Chair: Hans Peter Blossfeld) | |
| 09.00-10.00 | The impact of changes in the level, duration and eligibility of unemployment insurance benefits on unemployment transitions: Evidence from the Netherlands, 1985-2000 Irma Mooi-Reçi and Melinda Mills |
| 10.00-11.00 | Estimating time-varying effects of labour market programs on unemployment duration Xavier de Luna
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| 11.15-12.15 | When minority labor migrants meet the welfare state Bernt Bratsberg Discussant: Ivan Harsløf |
| Session 3 (Chair: Melinda Mills) | |
| 13.30-14.30 | Building Typologies of Individual Trajectories: An Overview of Statistical Methodologies Yvette Grelet and Nicolas Robette
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| 14.30-15.30 | Building Typologies of Individual Trajectories: An Illustration of Different Statistical Patrick Rousset and Laurent Lesnard /Danièle Trancart
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| 15.45-16.45 | Sequence Analysis of Life Course Data Brendan Halpin
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| Saturday 25 October | |
| Session 4 (Chair: Sandra Buchholz) | |
| 09.00-10.00 | Poverty Trajectories after Risky Life Course Events in Different European Welfare Regimes: A Latent Class Approach. Leen Vandecasteele |
| 10.00-11.00 | Young People's Risk of Becoming Social Assistance Claimants: Social Class or New Social Risks? Thomas Lorentzen |
| 11.15-12.15 | School-to-Work Transitions after Two Decades of Post-Communist Transitions: What’s New? Gary Pollock |