New Developments in Sequence Analysis

Brzinsky-Fay, Christian; Köhler, Ulrich

doi:10.1177/0049124110363371

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“…Methodological advances, such as the development of sequence analysis (Abbott, 1995;Abbott & Tsay, 2000) enable a more holistic understanding of changing youth transitions, taking into account multiple transitions simultaneously as well as the complexity and reversibility in their timing and sequencing. Despite criticism of its underlying assumptions (Hollister, 2009;Wu, 2000) recent evolutions of sequence analysis (Aisenbrey & Fasang, 2010;Brzinsky-Fay & Kohler, 2010;Gauthier et al, 2014) suggest that it has the potential to enhance our understanding of changing youth transitions, their patterning and temporal nature, and will be applied in this study.…”

Section: Methodology and Datamentioning

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Diverse pathways in becoming an adult: The role of structure, agency and context

Schoon

Lyons-Amos

2016

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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Although the transition from education to work has been a topic of much research, there is still lack of understanding regarding experiences of recent cohorts of young people. Moreover, much of the debate has focused on the polarization of youth transitions, at the neglect of a large group of young people who fall outside this dualism. This paper introduces a diverse pathways view offering a more comprehensive understanding of changing youth transitions and examines how transitions are shaped by interactions between structure and individual agency. The study is based on data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) and the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UK-HLS) using sequence analysis to identify transition patterns among cohorts born in 1980-84 and 1985-1989. Five distinct clusters could be identified, differentiating between those who participate in extended education, two pathways dominated by continuous employment, either directly after completing compulsory schooling at age 16 or after some further education, and two pathways characterized by exclusion from the labor market (either through prolonged experience of unemployment or inactivity). Both structural and agency variables are associated with variations in transition patterns, pointing to the need of conceptualizing the role of the agent as well as that of structures and resources for a better understanding of the processes underlying the selection into different pathways.

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Section: Methodology and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Diverse pathways in becoming an adult: The role of structure, agency and context

Schoon

Lyons-Amos

2016

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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“…Therefore, identifying the relative cost of all operations is critical to determining (dis)similarity between sequences. These require a priori definition by the researcher with little objective measure of the correct specification, and results can be highly sensitive to these specifications (Brzinsky-Fay and Kohler, 2010). Then, the distance between two sequences is defined by the minimum costs of the operations that are necessary to transform one sequence into the other (Abbott and Tsay, 2000).…”

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Longitudinal methods for life course research: A comparison of sequence analysis, latent class growth models, and multi-state event history models for studying partnership transitions

Mikolai¹,

Lyons-Amos²

2017

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CPC centre for population changeImproving our understanding of the key drivers and implications of population change Longitudinal methods for life course research: A comparison of sequence analysis, latent class growth models, and multistate event history models for studying partnership transitions ABSTRACT This paper compares and contrasts three methods that are useful for life course researchers; the more widely used sequence analysis, the promising but less often applied latent class growth models, and multistate event history models. The strengths and weaknesses of each method are highlighted by applying them to the same empirical problem. Using data from the Norwegian Generations and Gender Survey, changes in the partnership status of women born between 1955 and 1964 are modelled, with education as the primary covariate of interest. We show that latent class growth models and multistate event history models are a useful addition to life course researchers' methodological toolkit and that these methods can address certain research questions better than the more commonly applied sequence analysis or simple event history analysis.

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“…A sequence is defined as an ordered list of elements (e.g. Scherer 2006, Brzinsky-Fay andKohler 2010); in the present case an element is the status held by any particular individual in a specific year, as described in section 3a).…”

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The Double German Transformation: Changing Male Employment Patterns in East and West Germany

2011

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. In the present paper we use SOEP data to analyse whether the East German labour market has converged completely with that of West Germany, following the same pattern of flexibilization and de-standardization, or if East Germany has even overtaken the West in this regard. We observe evidence of inhomogenization and pluralization in employment biographies in both regions. However, these trends are more pronounced in East Germany. As a result, employment biographies of younger men are more pluralised and less homogeneous in East Germany than in the West.

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New Developments in Sequence Analysis

Cited by 89 publications

References 24 publications

Diverse pathways in becoming an adult: The role of structure, agency and context

Diverse pathways in becoming an adult: The role of structure, agency and context

Longitudinal methods for life course research: A comparison of sequence analysis, latent class growth models, and multi-state event history models for studying partnership transitions

The Double German Transformation: Changing Male Employment Patterns in East and West Germany

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