Emanuela Struffolino
Biographic Data
| ID | 226603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emanuela Struffolino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emanuela |
| FAMILY NAME | Struffolino |
| SIGNATURE | STRUFFOLINO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | WZB Berlin Social Science Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6635-8748 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Poverty among migrant, mixed, and non-migrant households: The role of non-teleworkability and single-earnership in Germany
Migrant and mixed households have higher poverty than non-migrant households. This is partly because single-earner two-adult households are more prevalent in migrant and mixed households and because such households have different job characteristics. One crucial job characteristic is teleworkability. Whether or not individuals can work from home has become a dividing factor in the labour market. While much research has focused on how teleworkabil…
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition
Processes that unfold over individuals' life courses are often associated with inequalities later in life. The literature lacks methodological approaches to analyze inequalities in outcomes between groups, for example, between women and men, in a life-course-sensitive manner. We propose a combination of methods-of sequence analysis, which enables us to study the multidimensional complexity of life courses with Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decompositio…
Converging mothers' employment trajectories between East and West Germany? A focus on the 2008-childcare-reform
ObjectiveAiming to generate evidence on how contextual conditions shape individuals' opportunities and constraints and, ultimately, life courses, we focus on a period of childcare expansion in reunified Germany. We investigate differences in employment trajectories around mothers' first childbirths to identify potential East-West convergence.BackgroundDuring Germany's division (1949-1990), universal public childcare and female full-time employmen…
Identifying and Qualifying Deviant Cases in Clusters of Sequences: The Why and The How
Sequence analysis is employed in different fields—e.g., demography, sociology, and political sciences—to describe longitudinal processes represented as sequences of categorical states. In many applications, sequences are clustered to identify relevant types, which reflect the different empirical realisations of the temporal process under study. We explore criteria to inspect internal cluster composition and to detect deviant sequences, that is, c…
Crisis-proof households? How social policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic imagined work and care in Germany
Social policies convey normative assumptions about how households should make ends meet and organise care, but how do these ideals withstand crises such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic? Previous research shows continuity of welfare state models in the crisis, but mostly looked at single policy fields and produced mixed findings regarding the role of pre-crisis reform trajectories. This paper contributes a detailed analysis of …
Tools for analysing fuzzy clusters of sequences data
BACKGROUNDSequence analysis is a set of tools increasingly used in demography and other social sciences to analyse longitudinal categorical data.Typically, single (e.g., education trajectories) or multiple parallel temporal processes (e.g., work and family) are analysed by using crisp clustering algorithms that reduce complexity by partitioning cases into exhaustive and mutually exclusive groups.Crisp partitions can be problematic when clusters a…
Strategies for Multidomain Sequence Analysis in Social Research
Multidomain/multichannel sequence analysis has become widely used in social science research to uncover the underlying relationships between two or more observed trajectories in parallel. For example, life-course researchers use multidomain sequence analysis to study the parallel unfolding of multiple life-course domains. In this article, the authors conduct a critical review of the approaches most used in multidomain sequence analysis. The paral…
Wealth in Couples: Introduction to the Special Issue
The assumption that economic resources are equally shared within households has been found to be untenable for income but is still often upheld for wealth. In this introduction to the special issue “Wealth in Couples”, we argue that within-household inequality in wealth is a pertinent and under-researched area that is ripe for development. To this end, we outline the relevance of wealth for demographic research, making the distinction between ind…
My Wealth, (Y)Our Life Satisfaction? Sole and Joint Wealth Ownership and Life Satisfaction in Marriage
This study examines the money-subjective well-being nexus by studying the link between changes in jointly and solely (i.e. respondents’ own and their partner’s own) held gross wealth and changes in married individuals’ subjective well-being. Joint assets reflect norms of sharing responsibilities and resources. Solely held assets, in contrast, offer individual economic independence. Using wealth data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOE…
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future
This article marks the occasion of Social Science Research's 50th anniversary by reflecting on the progress of sequence analysis (SA) since its introduction into the social sciences four decades ago, with focuses on the developments of SA thus far in the social sciences and on its potential future directions. The application of SA in the social sciences, especially in life course research, has mushroomed in the last decade and a half. Using a lif…
Povertà e ricchezza tra le famiglie di lavoratori in Italia: Trent'anni di svantaggio cumulativo
La letteratura sulla povertà da lavoro si è finora concentrata sullo studio dei redditi familiari. Per restituire una immagine multidimensionale del disagio economico e della vulnerabilità delle famiglie di lavoratori, questo contributo considera i trend nell'ammontare e nella composizione della ricchezza tra famiglie povere e non povere tra il 1991 e il 2016 in Italia. Inoltre, proponendo una analisi che incrocia la povertà da lavoro con i livel…
Povertà, lavoro e famiglia: Una riflessione introduttiva
La povertà nonostante il lavoro rimane un problema rilevante e anzi in crescita. Ciò non è dovuto solo alle conseguenze economiche e sociali della pandemia, dal momento che tale tendenza era già chiaramente manifesta a partire dalla crisi del 2008. Da decenni milioni di famiglie in Europa (ma possiamo generalizzare ad altre aree geografiche) vivono in condizioni di povertà sebbene uno o più componenti siano di fatto parte del sistema occupazional…
Is Parental Divorce Homogamy Associated With a Higher Risk of Separation From Cohabitation and Marriage
Numerous studies have shown that parental divorce is associated with an increase in adult children's divorce risk. We extend this literature by assessing how parental divorce on both sides of a couple is related to their partnership dynamics, specifically, whether there is parental divorce homogamy and whether a history of parental divorce for both partners is associated with increased dissolution risks for cohabiting and married unions. We use F…
Gender and race differences in pathways out of in-work poverty in the US
Research on in-work poverty has focused on the probability of being employed while living in an impoverished household, but no studies have investigated pathways of labor market attachment and economic vulnerability following in-work poverty. We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to establish a typology of employment pathways out of in-work poverty and to estimate differences by gender and race. By using the Sequence Analysis Multistat…
Who is really ‘left behind’? Half a century of gender differences in the school-to-work transitions of low-educated youth
At a time of growing expectations about educational attainment, young people who did not complete upper-secondary schooling can easily be ‘left behind’ to face risks of social exclusion. Being able to make a rapid and successful transition into a first significant job is crucial for long-term labor-market attachment. We approach the question of continuity or change in school-to-work transitions by comparing the experiences of four birth cohorts o…
The Heterogeneity of Partnership Trajectories to Childlessness in Germany
Lone Mothers' Employment Trajectories: A Longitudinal Mixed-method Study
Using a mixed-method design, this study explores the heterogeneity in employment trajectories before and after the transition to lone parenthood in Switzerland. First, we perform sequence and cluster analysis on data from the Swiss Household panel to identify typical employment trajectories around the transition to lone parenthood, and then estimate their association with individual and household characteristics (N=462). Finally, we contrast thes…
Early-Career Complexity Before and After Labour-Market Deregulation in Italy: Heterogeneity by Gender and Socio-economic Status Across Cohorts
Labour-market deregulation may have generated more unstable and complex employment life courses. As exposure to highly volatile early-career trajectories has long-lasting consequences for the working lives of individuals, it is especially important to consider how these processes have affected younger workers in countries like Italy. Here, deregulation 'at the margins' of the labour market has been characterized by a strong age divide and has exa…
Being Working Poor or Feeling Working Poor? The Role of Work Intensity and Job Stability for Subjective Poverty
Lavoratori o lavoratrici povere? Disuguaglianze di genere nel mercato del lavoro in Europa
L’articolo propone uno studio sulla disuguaglianza di genere nell’essere working poor, in particolare considerando le caratteristiche macro dell’occupazione connesse alla posizione sfavorita delle donne. In Europa, le donne sono in media meno occupate degli uomini e, se attive, sono con maggior probabilità impiegate con contratti a tempo determinato e parziale, svolgono mansioni meno qualificate, e ricevono (a parità di caratteristiche osservabil…
Navigating the early career: The social stratification of young workers’ employment trajectories in Italy
Longitudinal employment trajectories and health in middle life: Insights from linked administrative and survey data
The paper adopts a long-term perspective in analysing the association between health and employment histories, often characterized by substantial mobility over time across multiple statuses and contractual arrangements. The available evidence is largely ba
Individual and household in-work poverty in Europe: Understanding the role of labor market characteristics
The article presents an analysis of the association between labor market characteristics related to female employment and the prevalence of in-work poverty. We compare two relative measures of in-work poverty: The individual definition refers to workers whose salary is below 60% of the median, while the household-level definition refers to individuals whose household income is below 60% of the median. Microdata from the 2014 EU-SILC survey and ma…
Estimating the Relationship between Time-varying Covariates and Trajectories: The Sequence Analysis Multistate Model Procedure
The relationship between processes and time-varying covariates is of central theoretical interest in addressing many social science research questions. On the one hand, event history analysis (EHA) has been the chosen method to study these kinds of relationships when the outcomes can be meaningfully specified as simple instantaneous events or transitions. On the other hand, sequence analysis (SA) has made increasing inroads into the social scienc…
When working isn't enough: Family demographic processes and in-work poverty across the life course in the United States
In-work poverty, a phenomenon that engenders social exclusion, is exceptionally high in the United States. The literature on in-work poverty focuses on occupational polarization, human capital, demographic characteristics, and welfare generosity. However
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future
This article marks the occasion of Social Science Research's 50th anniversary by reflecting on the progress of sequence analysis (SA) since its introduction into the social sciences four decades ago, with focuses on the developments of SA thus far in the social sciences and on its potential future directions. The application of SA in the social sciences, especially in life course research, has mushroomed in the last decade and a half. Using a lif…
Individual and household in-work poverty in Europe: Understanding the role of labor market characteristics
The article presents an analysis of the association between labor market characteristics related to female employment and the prevalence of in-work poverty. We compare two relative measures of in-work poverty: The individual definition refers to workers whose salary is below 60% of the median, while the household-level definition refers to individuals whose household income is below 60% of the median. Microdata from the 2014 EU-SILC survey and ma…
The Heterogeneity of Partnership Trajectories to Childlessness in Germany
Early-Career Complexity Before and After Labour-Market Deregulation in Italy: Heterogeneity by Gender and Socio-economic Status Across Cohorts
Labour-market deregulation may have generated more unstable and complex employment life courses. As exposure to highly volatile early-career trajectories has long-lasting consequences for the working lives of individuals, it is especially important to consider how these processes have affected younger workers in countries like Italy. Here, deregulation 'at the margins' of the labour market has been characterized by a strong age divide and has exa…
Being Working Poor or Feeling Working Poor? The Role of Work Intensity and Job Stability for Subjective Poverty
Navigating the early career: The social stratification of young workers’ employment trajectories in Italy
Longitudinal employment trajectories and health in middle life: Insights from linked administrative and survey data
The paper adopts a long-term perspective in analysing the association between health and employment histories, often characterized by substantial mobility over time across multiple statuses and contractual arrangements. The available evidence is largely ba
My Wealth, (Y)Our Life Satisfaction? Sole and Joint Wealth Ownership and Life Satisfaction in Marriage
This study examines the money-subjective well-being nexus by studying the link between changes in jointly and solely (i.e. respondents’ own and their partner’s own) held gross wealth and changes in married individuals’ subjective well-being. Joint assets reflect norms of sharing responsibilities and resources. Solely held assets, in contrast, offer individual economic independence. Using wealth data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOE…
When working isn't enough: Family demographic processes and in-work poverty across the life course in the United States
In-work poverty, a phenomenon that engenders social exclusion, is exceptionally high in the United States. The literature on in-work poverty focuses on occupational polarization, human capital, demographic characteristics, and welfare generosity. However
Strategies for Multidomain Sequence Analysis in Social Research
Multidomain/multichannel sequence analysis has become widely used in social science research to uncover the underlying relationships between two or more observed trajectories in parallel. For example, life-course researchers use multidomain sequence analysis to study the parallel unfolding of multiple life-course domains. In this article, the authors conduct a critical review of the approaches most used in multidomain sequence analysis. The paral…
Estimating the Relationship between Time-varying Covariates and Trajectories: The Sequence Analysis Multistate Model Procedure
The relationship between processes and time-varying covariates is of central theoretical interest in addressing many social science research questions. On the one hand, event history analysis (EHA) has been the chosen method to study these kinds of relationships when the outcomes can be meaningfully specified as simple instantaneous events or transitions. On the other hand, sequence analysis (SA) has made increasing inroads into the social scienc…
Pushed or pulled? Girls and boys facing early school leaving risk in Italy
La santé perçue des mères de familles monoparentales en Suisse: Le Rôle De l'Activité Professionnelle Et De l'Éducation
Les mères sans conjoint et avec des enfants à charge sont plus susceptibles d'être sans emploi et pauvres, deux facteurs qui augmentent les risques d'être en mauvaise santé. En Suisse, l'insuffisance des politiques de conciliation entre travail et famille et une fiscalité qui avantage les couples mariés adoptant une division traditionnelle du travail se traduisent par de faibles taux de participation des mères au marché du travail. Pour le cas pa…
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition
Processes that unfold over individuals' life courses are often associated with inequalities later in life. The literature lacks methodological approaches to analyze inequalities in outcomes between groups, for example, between women and men, in a life-course-sensitive manner. We propose a combination of methods-of sequence analysis, which enables us to study the multidimensional complexity of life courses with Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decompositio…
Is Parental Divorce Homogamy Associated With a Higher Risk of Separation From Cohabitation and Marriage
Numerous studies have shown that parental divorce is associated with an increase in adult children's divorce risk. We extend this literature by assessing how parental divorce on both sides of a couple is related to their partnership dynamics, specifically, whether there is parental divorce homogamy and whether a history of parental divorce for both partners is associated with increased dissolution risks for cohabiting and married unions. We use F…
Who is really ‘left behind’? Half a century of gender differences in the school-to-work transitions of low-educated youth
At a time of growing expectations about educational attainment, young people who did not complete upper-secondary schooling can easily be ‘left behind’ to face risks of social exclusion. Being able to make a rapid and successful transition into a first significant job is crucial for long-term labor-market attachment. We approach the question of continuity or change in school-to-work transitions by comparing the experiences of four birth cohorts o…
Wealth in Couples: Introduction to the Special Issue
The assumption that economic resources are equally shared within households has been found to be untenable for income but is still often upheld for wealth. In this introduction to the special issue “Wealth in Couples”, we argue that within-household inequality in wealth is a pertinent and under-researched area that is ripe for development. To this end, we outline the relevance of wealth for demographic research, making the distinction between ind…
Identifying and Qualifying Deviant Cases in Clusters of Sequences: The Why and The How
Sequence analysis is employed in different fields—e.g., demography, sociology, and political sciences—to describe longitudinal processes represented as sequences of categorical states. In many applications, sequences are clustered to identify relevant types, which reflect the different empirical realisations of the temporal process under study. We explore criteria to inspect internal cluster composition and to detect deviant sequences, that is, c…
Gender and race differences in pathways out of in-work poverty in the US
Research on in-work poverty has focused on the probability of being employed while living in an impoverished household, but no studies have investigated pathways of labor market attachment and economic vulnerability following in-work poverty. We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to establish a typology of employment pathways out of in-work poverty and to estimate differences by gender and race. By using the Sequence Analysis Multistat…
Lone Mothers' Employment Trajectories: A Longitudinal Mixed-method Study
Using a mixed-method design, this study explores the heterogeneity in employment trajectories before and after the transition to lone parenthood in Switzerland. First, we perform sequence and cluster analysis on data from the Swiss Household panel to identify typical employment trajectories around the transition to lone parenthood, and then estimate their association with individual and household characteristics (N=462). Finally, we contrast thes…
Gender, education, and family life courses in East and West Germany: Insights from new sequence analysis techniques
La santé perçue des mères de familles monoparentales en Suisse: Le Rôle De l'Activité Professionnelle Et De l'Éducation
Les mères sans conjoint et avec des enfants à charge sont plus susceptibles d'être sans emploi et pauvres, deux facteurs qui augmentent les risques d'être en mauvaise santé. En Suisse, l'insuffisance des politiques de conciliation entre travail et famille et une fiscalité qui avantage les couples mariés adoptant une division traditionnelle du travail se traduisent par de faibles taux de participation des mères au marché du travail. Pour le cas pa…
Pushed or pulled? Girls and boys facing early school leaving risk in Italy
Individual and household in-work poverty in Europe: Understanding the role of labor market characteristics
The article presents an analysis of the association between labor market characteristics related to female employment and the prevalence of in-work poverty. We compare two relative measures of in-work poverty: The individual definition refers to workers whose salary is below 60% of the median, while the household-level definition refers to individuals whose household income is below 60% of the median. Microdata from the 2014 EU-SILC survey and ma…
Estimating the Relationship between Time-varying Covariates and Trajectories: The Sequence Analysis Multistate Model Procedure
The relationship between processes and time-varying covariates is of central theoretical interest in addressing many social science research questions. On the one hand, event history analysis (EHA) has been the chosen method to study these kinds of relationships when the outcomes can be meaningfully specified as simple instantaneous events or transitions. On the other hand, sequence analysis (SA) has made increasing inroads into the social scienc…
When working isn't enough: Family demographic processes and in-work poverty across the life course in the United States
In-work poverty, a phenomenon that engenders social exclusion, is exceptionally high in the United States. The literature on in-work poverty focuses on occupational polarization, human capital, demographic characteristics, and welfare generosity. However
Lavoratori o lavoratrici povere? Disuguaglianze di genere nel mercato del lavoro in Europa
L’articolo propone uno studio sulla disuguaglianza di genere nell’essere working poor, in particolare considerando le caratteristiche macro dell’occupazione connesse alla posizione sfavorita delle donne. In Europa, le donne sono in media meno occupate degli uomini e, se attive, sono con maggior probabilità impiegate con contratti a tempo determinato e parziale, svolgono mansioni meno qualificate, e ricevono (a parità di caratteristiche osservabil…
Navigating the early career: The social stratification of young workers’ employment trajectories in Italy
Longitudinal employment trajectories and health in middle life: Insights from linked administrative and survey data
The paper adopts a long-term perspective in analysing the association between health and employment histories, often characterized by substantial mobility over time across multiple statuses and contractual arrangements. The available evidence is largely ba
Who is really ‘left behind’? Half a century of gender differences in the school-to-work transitions of low-educated youth
At a time of growing expectations about educational attainment, young people who did not complete upper-secondary schooling can easily be ‘left behind’ to face risks of social exclusion. Being able to make a rapid and successful transition into a first significant job is crucial for long-term labor-market attachment. We approach the question of continuity or change in school-to-work transitions by comparing the experiences of four birth cohorts o…
The Heterogeneity of Partnership Trajectories to Childlessness in Germany
Lone Mothers' Employment Trajectories: A Longitudinal Mixed-method Study
Using a mixed-method design, this study explores the heterogeneity in employment trajectories before and after the transition to lone parenthood in Switzerland. First, we perform sequence and cluster analysis on data from the Swiss Household panel to identify typical employment trajectories around the transition to lone parenthood, and then estimate their association with individual and household characteristics (N=462). Finally, we contrast thes…
Early-Career Complexity Before and After Labour-Market Deregulation in Italy: Heterogeneity by Gender and Socio-economic Status Across Cohorts
Labour-market deregulation may have generated more unstable and complex employment life courses. As exposure to highly volatile early-career trajectories has long-lasting consequences for the working lives of individuals, it is especially important to consider how these processes have affected younger workers in countries like Italy. Here, deregulation 'at the margins' of the labour market has been characterized by a strong age divide and has exa…
Being Working Poor or Feeling Working Poor? The Role of Work Intensity and Job Stability for Subjective Poverty
Povertà e ricchezza tra le famiglie di lavoratori in Italia: Trent'anni di svantaggio cumulativo
La letteratura sulla povertà da lavoro si è finora concentrata sullo studio dei redditi familiari. Per restituire una immagine multidimensionale del disagio economico e della vulnerabilità delle famiglie di lavoratori, questo contributo considera i trend nell'ammontare e nella composizione della ricchezza tra famiglie povere e non povere tra il 1991 e il 2016 in Italia. Inoltre, proponendo una analisi che incrocia la povertà da lavoro con i livel…
Povertà, lavoro e famiglia: Una riflessione introduttiva
La povertà nonostante il lavoro rimane un problema rilevante e anzi in crescita. Ciò non è dovuto solo alle conseguenze economiche e sociali della pandemia, dal momento che tale tendenza era già chiaramente manifesta a partire dalla crisi del 2008. Da decenni milioni di famiglie in Europa (ma possiamo generalizzare ad altre aree geografiche) vivono in condizioni di povertà sebbene uno o più componenti siano di fatto parte del sistema occupazional…
Is Parental Divorce Homogamy Associated With a Higher Risk of Separation From Cohabitation and Marriage
Numerous studies have shown that parental divorce is associated with an increase in adult children's divorce risk. We extend this literature by assessing how parental divorce on both sides of a couple is related to their partnership dynamics, specifically, whether there is parental divorce homogamy and whether a history of parental divorce for both partners is associated with increased dissolution risks for cohabiting and married unions. We use F…
Gender and race differences in pathways out of in-work poverty in the US
Research on in-work poverty has focused on the probability of being employed while living in an impoverished household, but no studies have investigated pathways of labor market attachment and economic vulnerability following in-work poverty. We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to establish a typology of employment pathways out of in-work poverty and to estimate differences by gender and race. By using the Sequence Analysis Multistat…
Wealth in Couples: Introduction to the Special Issue
The assumption that economic resources are equally shared within households has been found to be untenable for income but is still often upheld for wealth. In this introduction to the special issue “Wealth in Couples”, we argue that within-household inequality in wealth is a pertinent and under-researched area that is ripe for development. To this end, we outline the relevance of wealth for demographic research, making the distinction between ind…
My Wealth, (Y)Our Life Satisfaction? Sole and Joint Wealth Ownership and Life Satisfaction in Marriage
This study examines the money-subjective well-being nexus by studying the link between changes in jointly and solely (i.e. respondents’ own and their partner’s own) held gross wealth and changes in married individuals’ subjective well-being. Joint assets reflect norms of sharing responsibilities and resources. Solely held assets, in contrast, offer individual economic independence. Using wealth data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOE…
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future
This article marks the occasion of Social Science Research's 50th anniversary by reflecting on the progress of sequence analysis (SA) since its introduction into the social sciences four decades ago, with focuses on the developments of SA thus far in the social sciences and on its potential future directions. The application of SA in the social sciences, especially in life course research, has mushroomed in the last decade and a half. Using a lif…
Strategies for Multidomain Sequence Analysis in Social Research
Multidomain/multichannel sequence analysis has become widely used in social science research to uncover the underlying relationships between two or more observed trajectories in parallel. For example, life-course researchers use multidomain sequence analysis to study the parallel unfolding of multiple life-course domains. In this article, the authors conduct a critical review of the approaches most used in multidomain sequence analysis. The paral…
Identifying and Qualifying Deviant Cases in Clusters of Sequences: The Why and The How
Sequence analysis is employed in different fields—e.g., demography, sociology, and political sciences—to describe longitudinal processes represented as sequences of categorical states. In many applications, sequences are clustered to identify relevant types, which reflect the different empirical realisations of the temporal process under study. We explore criteria to inspect internal cluster composition and to detect deviant sequences, that is, c…
Crisis-proof households? How social policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic imagined work and care in Germany
Social policies convey normative assumptions about how households should make ends meet and organise care, but how do these ideals withstand crises such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic? Previous research shows continuity of welfare state models in the crisis, but mostly looked at single policy fields and produced mixed findings regarding the role of pre-crisis reform trajectories. This paper contributes a detailed analysis of …
Tools for analysing fuzzy clusters of sequences data
BACKGROUNDSequence analysis is a set of tools increasingly used in demography and other social sciences to analyse longitudinal categorical data.Typically, single (e.g., education trajectories) or multiple parallel temporal processes (e.g., work and family) are analysed by using crisp clustering algorithms that reduce complexity by partitioning cases into exhaustive and mutually exclusive groups.Crisp partitions can be problematic when clusters a…
Economics (17 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Demographic economics (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Life course approach (8 works) · Labour economics (7 works)