Sequence Analysis and Related Approaches: Innovative Methods and Applications

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This open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods for analysing longitudinal data describing life trajectories such as professional careers, family paths, the succession of health statuses, or the time use. The applications as well as the methodological contributions proposed in this book pay special attention to the combined use of SA and other methods for longitudinal data such as event history analysis, Markov modelling, and sequence network. The methodological contributions in this book include among others original propositions for measuring the precarity of work trajectories, Markov-based methods for clustering sequences, fuzzy and monothetic clustering of sequences, network-based SA, joint use of SA and hidden Markov models, and of SA and survival models. The applications cover the comparison of gendered occupational trajectories in Germany, the study of the changes in women market participation in Denmark, the study of typical day of dual-earner couples in Italy, of mobility patterns in Togo, of internet addiction in Switzerland, and of the quality of employment career after a first unemployment spell. As such this book provides a wealth of information for social scientists interested in quantitative life course analysis, and all those working in sociology, demography, economics, health, psychology, social policy, and statistics. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Sequence Analysis: Where Are We, Where Are We Going? (Gilbert Ritschard, Matthias Studer)....Pages 1-11 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 Do Different Approaches in Population Science Lead to Divergent or Convergent Models? (Daniel Courgeau)....Pages 15-33 Case Studies of Combining Sequence Analysis and Modelling (Mervi Eerola)....Pages 35-46 Front Matter ....Pages 47-47 Glass Ceilings, Glass Escalators and Revolving Doors (Lydia Malin, Ramsey Wise)....Pages 49-68 Modelling Mortality Using Life Trajectories of Disabled and Non-Disabled Individuals in Nineteenth-Century Sweden (Erling Häggström Lundevaller, Lotta Vikström, Helena Haage)....Pages 69-81 Sequence History Analysis (SHA): Estimating the Effect of Past Trajectories on an Upcoming Event (Florence Rossignon, Matthias Studer, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Jean-Marie Le Goff)....Pages 83-100 Front Matter ....Pages 101-101 Network Analysis of Sequence Structures (Benjamin Cornwell)....Pages 103-120 Relational Sequence Networks as a Tool for Studying Gendered Mobility Patterns (Klaus Hamberger)....Pages 121-146 Front Matter ....Pages 147-147 Multiphase Sequence Analysis (Thomas Collas)....Pages 149-166 Unpacking Configurational Dynamics: Sequence Analysis and Qualitative Comparative Analysis as a Mixed-Method Design (Camilla Borgna, Emanuela Struffolino)....Pages 167-184 Combining Sequence Analysis and Hidden Markov Models in the Analysis of Complex Life Sequence Data (Satu Helske, Jouni Helske, Mervi Eerola)....Pages 185-200 Front Matter ....Pages 201-201 Markovian-Based Clustering of Internet Addiction Trajectories (Zhivko Taushanov, André Berchtold)....Pages 203-222 Divisive Property-Based and Fuzzy Clustering for Sequence Analysis (Matthias Studer)....Pages 223-239 From 07.00 to 22.00: A Dual-Earner Couple’s Typical Day in Italy (Ivano Bison, Alessandro Scalcon)....Pages 241-257 Front Matter ....Pages 259-259 Measuring Sequence Quality (Anna Manzoni, Irma Mooi-Reci)....Pages 261-278 An Index of Precarity for Measuring Early Employment Insecurity (Gilbert Ritschard, Margherita Bussi, Jacqueline O’Reilly)....Pages 279-295 Correction to: Unpacking Configurational Dynamics: Sequence Analysis and Qualitative Comparative Analysis as a Mixed-Method Design (Camilla Borgna, Emanuela Struffolino)....Pages E1-E1 Back Matter ....Pages 297-298