… , women’s employment biographies are significantly shaped … been under different welfare
regimes and that East Germany … Rural men were more likely to have multiple jobs at the same …

… life courses in different ways. … de-standardization can only be found for marriage and child
birth and only within Western Europe and the Nordic countries (maybe also for men in Eastern …

… societies face a de-standardization of employment histories, … In contrast, redistributive elements
work in the opposite direction … case as biographies of men and women in the Eastern part …

… reforms that actively promoted de-standardization from the mid… Two main theoretical
perspectives refer to the ways in which … be more likely to work in flexible jobs than men because …

… “Separate paths, same direction? De-standardization of male employment biographies in
East and West Germany.” Current Sociology 63 (3): 387–410. doi:10.1177/0011392115572380…

… more interruptive employment biographies than men, which is … support divergence from
male employment characteristics, … former East Germany, thus, pointing into the direction of path …

… coefficients are in opposite directions for men and women. … choice to separate Baltic regimes
from Eastern European regimes, … De-standardization of the life course: what it might mean? …

… men, because the life courses of men were already very standardized in the older cohorts.
As was already mentioned, the life courses of men … analysis tools, in several different ways. …

… Finally, the chapter deals with the de-standardization … a male or female way of life was
inscribed in the social institutional and extensive welfare state regulatory structure in many ways. …

Prior research on overarching patterns of changing life courses is characterized by various
and confusing terms and concepts. Building on recent methodological advances, this paper …