Project Overview
The project aims to study flexibility strategies on the labor market and the impact of these strategies on social inequality structures for eleven industrial countries. In the first phase of the project (March 2005 to February 2007), we concentrated on the labor market entry and early careers and asked how the opportunities of labor market entrants have changed over the last decades. In the second phase (October 2007 to October 2009), we focus on the labor market exit and the late career and study if and how increased labor market flexibilization has influenced old age income. The countries under study are: Germany, Great Britain, USA, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, and Estonia. The flexCAREER project is located both at the University of Bamberg and the
University of Goettingen.
» read more
Publications
Phase II - Late Careers
Buchholz, S., A. Jabsen, K. Kurz, J. Marold, P. Schmelzer
and H.-P. Blossfeld (2009): " Globalization, Economic Restructuring and
Increasing Uncertainty in Old Age - A Theoretical Framework". Conceptual Paper.
» [PDF]
Books
Blossfeld, Hans-Peter, S. Buchholz and K. Kurz (2011): Aging Populations, Globalization and the Labor Market - Comparing Late Working Life and Retirement in Modern Societies. Cheltenham, UK / Northampton, MA, USA. Edward Elgar.
[» PDF Flyer]
Working Papers
Maurice G. and Wolbers, M. (2009):
"Late career mobility and the transition into
retirement of older workers in the Netherlands". Working Paper. University of Bamberg.
» [PDF]
Marold, J. and Larsen, M. (2009):
"How 'flexicure' are older Danes?
The development of social inequality in later life since the 1980s". Working Paper. University of Bamberg.
» [PDF]
Schmelzer, P. (2009): "Late careers and income dynamics
among older people - Consequences of unstable careers on the income
situation in Great Britain" . Working Paper. University of Goettingen.
» [PDF]
Jabsen, A. and S. Buchholz (2009): "Increasing uncertainty in old age in
Germany? The development of social inequality in later life
since the mid-1980s" . Working Paper. University of Bamberg.
» [PDF]
Phase I - Early Careers
View: Books | WorkingpapersBooks
Blossfeld, Hans-Peter, K. Kurz, S. Buchholz, E. Bukodi, Eds. (2009): Young Workers, Globalization and the Labor Market: Comparing Early Working Life in Eleven Countries. Cheltenham, UK /Northampton, MA, USA. Edward Elgar.
[» PDF Flyer]
Working Papers
Relikowski, I., M. Zielonka, and H. Hofmeister (2007): "Labor market entries and early careers in the United States of America, 1984–2002 - Increasing employment instability among young people?".
Working Paper No. 10. University of Bamberg.
» [PDF]
Bukodi, E. (2006): "Increasing labor market insecurities among young people in Hungary? Labor market entry process since the early 1980s".
Working Paper No. 9. University of Bamberg.
» [PDF]
Martínez-Pastor, J. I., F. Bernardi, and L. Garrido (2006): "Employment opportunities at entry into the labor market in Spain since the mid-1970s".
Working Paper No. 8. University of Bamberg.
» [PDF]
Wolbers, M. H.J. (2006): "Increasing labor market instability among young people? Labor market entry and early career development among school-leavers in the Netherlands since the mid-1980s".
Working Paper No. 7. University of Bamberg.
» [PDF]
Bukodi, E., E. Ebralidze, P. Schmelzer, and I. Relikowski (2006): "Increasing flexibility at labor market entry and in the early career - A new conceptual framework for the flexCAREER project
". Working Paper No. 6. University of Bamberg.
» [PDF]
Schmelzer, P. (2005): "Increasing employment instability among young people? Labor market entries and early careers in Great Britain since the 1980s
". Working Paper No. 5. University of Bamberg.
» [PDF]
Buchholz, S. and K. Kurz (2005): "Increasing employment instability among young people? Labor market entries and early careers in Germany since the mid-1980s
". Working Paper No. 3. University of Bamberg.
» [PDF]
Blossfeld, H.-P., S. Buchholz, E. Bukodi, E. Ebralidze, K. Kurz, I. Relikowski, and P. Schmelzer (2005): "Flexibility processes and social inequalities at labor market entry and in the early career - A conceptual paper for the flexCAREER project
". Working Paper No. 1. University of Bamberg.
» [PDF]
Martin Hällsten and Karin Halldén: Sensitivity Analyses.
University of Bamberg.
» [PDF]
Workshops
15.-16.05.2009
flexCAREER II Workshop with external scientists involved in the project
17.-18.10.2008
flexCAREER II Workshop with external scientists involved in the project
20.-21.10.2006
flexCAREER I Workshop with external scientists involved in the project.
29.-30.04.2005
Workshop on "Links abgeschnittene Daten" from Prof. Dr. Götz Rohwer.
9.-10.09.2005
Workshop on "Multilevel Analysis with Longitudinal Data" from Prof. Dr. Götz Rohwer.
17.-18.03.2005
flexCAREER I Workshop with external scientists involved in the project.
