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 …

Social sequence analysis includes a diverse and rapidly growing body of methods that
social scientists have developed to help study complex ordered social processes, including …

This article uses sequence analysis to examine how gender inequality in work-family
trajectories unfolds from early adulthood until middle age in two different welfare state …

How are gendered work–family life courses associated with financial well-being in
retirement? In this article we compare the cohorts born 1920–1950 in West Germany and …

Background Population ageing, demographic change and the financial crisis has put the
financial sustainability of the German pension system at risk. In reaction to these challenges …

Visualization is a potentially powerful tool for exploration and complexity reduction of
categorical sequence data. This article discusses currently available sequence visualization …

Purpose of the Study A destandardization of labor-force patterns revolving around retirement
has been observed in recent literature. It is unclear, however, to which degree and of which …

This article analyses women's retirement income in the context of two distinct welfare states.
In addition to women's employment history, we consider their marital history over the life …

Due to its rapid technical development over the past two decades, sequence analysis has
partly lost sight of its theoretical motivation in the social sciences as originally formulated by …

BACKGROUND There has been much debate whether work and family lives became more
complex in past decades, that is, exhibiting more frequent transitions and more uncertainty …