… from engagement in paid work earlier in life. Consistent with a life course perspective, they
noted that having an interrupted or reduced engagement in paid work earlier in life could also …

… Similar results were found in a Dutch study which reported that women in paid work were
less likely to become carers than women who were not working (Dautzenberg et al. 2000). This …

… life course should become an explicit component in theorizing the strains associated with
the absence of fit, given the distinctive life … the clockworks of paid work remain barriers to real …

… Importantly, we also adjust for health throughout the life course to account for health selection
into paid work beyond SPA. In the light of significant gender differences in labour market …

… As working lives extend, the time available to provide care is being constrained and … and
work are likely to increase. In this context, understanding how unpaid caregiving and paid work …

… It contrasts the meaning of ‘free’ work over the life courses of a range of creative workers,
showing how it is stratified by social class, age, and career stage. By exploring the stratification …

… life, the erosion of normal work biographies, and the increasing fuzziness of both the transition
to adulthood and from work … topics in life course research, we should also pay attention to …

… Paid work is common through high school, butyoung people … as the quality of their work
experiences, differences thathave … stages of the life course based on their student, marital, work, …

… are establishing links to their partner’s life course and life planning. Finally we discuss the
… between paid work and commitments to others. KEY WORDS • biographical linkages • life …

… by a woman during her lifetime and a variety of self-reported … set containing considerable
life course information, including … the hazards of the formal paid employment which the woman …