Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income … mounting scientific evidence that various forms of educational, employment and financial inequalities increase over time …

distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …

We use data from the adult cohort of the National Education Panel Study to analyse the changes in the employment … histories of cohorts born after World War II and the role of atypical employment in this context. Younger cohorts are … characterised by acquiring more education, by entering into employment at a higher age, and by experiencing atypical employment more …

account for women who select into employment due to having a college education, which we call college-induced selection into … employment (CISE). We find that women are, on average, more than 17 percentage points more likely to be employed due to having a …