Hans-Peter Blossfeld Libros

Examining how youths in fourteen industrialized societies make the transition to adulthood in an era of globalization and rising uncertainty, this collection of essays investigates the impact that institutions working with social groups of youths have upon those youths' abilities to make adult decisions determining their life courses. Covering both Europe and North America, the book includes case studies, and contains country-specific contributions on conservative, social-democratic, post-socialist, liberal and familistic welfare regimes, as well as data from the GLOBALIFE project. Filling the gap in the market on the micro effects of globalization on individuals, and taking an empirical approach to the topic, this impressive volume brings the individual and nation-specific institutions back into the discussion on globalization.

This book offers an introduction to event history modeling techniques using Stata (version 9), a widely utilized statistical program for data analysis. It highlights the importance of event history models for causal analysis in the social sciences, particularly focusing on continuous-time models. The authors guide readers through the entire research process, starting from the challenges of recording event-oriented data, to data organization, software applications, and result interpretation. They provide examples of hypothesis testing and model selection, discussing the strengths and limitations of various techniques. Each example includes a brief explanation of the underlying statistical concepts, as well as details on data input and relevant Stata commands. Readers can easily run and modify application examples on their computers by accessing the authors' website. Examples cover diverse topics, including survival rates in medical studies, unemployment durations in economic research, and recidivism rates in criminology. This book complements previous works by Blossfeld et al. and is designed for researchers in fields such as statistics, economics, psychology, sociology, and political science. It also serves as a textbook for courses on event history analysis when paired with the authors' other publications.