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6. Setting the scene for life. Longitudinal studies of early social disadvantage and later life chances : Department of Sociology
Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns the long-term life chances of children brought up under various conditions in Sweden during the first half of the twentieth century. The main purpose is to examine the consequences of children’s early family environment for later educational career, and ultimately, for their mortality risk at different stages of the life-course. LÄS MER
7. Comparative Studies of Vocational Education and Training
Sammanfattning : The thesis consists of an introduction and three studies, which are comparative sociological and institutional analyses of a number of countries' publicly regulated vocational education and training systems at upper secondary and post-secondary level. Official regulation of programme content and curricula - the main empirical material - is interpreted, and focus is directed on aspects which distinguish between, among others, general and vocational elements of teaching, learning and training. LÄS MER
8. Set for life? Socioeconomic conditions, occupational complexity, and later life health
Sammanfattning : Life expectancy has increased in the western parts of the world and more people reach old age. Some groups of people have benefitted more of the increase in life expectancy and have better health than others. Because of biological, psychological, behavioral, and social factors over the life course, adverse health accumulates in later life. LÄS MER
9. Quantitative analysis of mass spectrometry proteomics data : Software for improved life science
Sammanfattning : The rapid advances in life science, including the sequencing of the human genome and numerous other techiques, has given an extraordinary ability to aquire data on biological systems and human disease. Even so, drug development costs are higher than ever, while the rate of new approved treatments is historically low. LÄS MER
10. Who becomes a teenage parent? : life course perspectives on selection into teenage motherhood and fatherhood trajectories in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Background. The aim of the research described in thesis is to study processes of selection leading to teenage parenthood in contemporary Sweden. I ask how factors related to socio-economic position, mental health issues in youth, and family formation behaviour of previous generations directs young individuals into teenage parent trajectories. LÄS MER
