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Gilbert Ritschard and Matthias Studer (editors), Proceedings of the International Conference on Sequence Analysis and Related Methods (LaCOSA II) (caution: 977 pages, 28.5 MB).

Wednesday 08.06.2016

Session 3A: Epistemological aspects

• Daniel Courgeau, Do different approaches in social science lead to divergent or convergent models?.
• Philippe Blanchard, Mapping the field of sequence analysis.
• Ivano Bison and Alessandro Scalcon, From 07.00 to 22.00: a dual-earner typical day in Italy. Old questions and new evidences from social sequence analysis.

Session 3B: Life sequences of disabled

• Paraskevi Peristera, Hugo Westerlund and Linda Magnusson Hanson, Depressive symptom trajectories across working life and workload in paid and unpaid work among Swedish men and women.
• Isabel Baumann, Sibylle Juvalta, Szilvia Altwicker-Hàmori, Niklas Baer, Ulrich Frick and Peter Rüesch, Labor market integration of adolescents with mental disorders.
• Helena Haage, Erling Häggström Lundevaller and Lotta Vikström, Opportunities of Work and Family in Young Disabled People’s Lives: A Comparative Study of Disabled and Non-disabled Young Adults in Nineteenth-century Northern Sweden Using Sequence Analysis.

Session 4A: Social policy

• Maxim Kovalenko and Dimitri Mortelmans, Employment security in non-traditional careers: Contextual and individual analysis in 13 European countries.
• Margherita Bussi, Transitions, trajectories and the role of activation policies for young people.
• Nevena Zhelyazkova and Gilbert Ritschard, Discovering and Explaining Patterns of Work-Family Reconciliation in Luxembourg.

Session 4B: Markov I

• Pauline Adamopoulou, Gilbert Ritschard and André Berchtold, Using dynamic microsimulation to understand professional trajectories of the active Swiss population.
• Yu Han, Aart. C. Liefbroer and Cees. H. Elzinga, Understanding social-class differences in the transition to adulthood using Markov chain models.
• Zhivko Taushanov and André Berchtold, Markovian-Based Clustering of Internet Addiction Trajectories.

Session 5A: Health

• Monica Magadi, Application of ‘pseudo panels’ to investigate causal link between HIV and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Michael Kühhirt, Early Maternal Employment Sequences and Child Body Weight at Age Six: Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel.
• Jonathan Roux, Nolwenn Le Meur, Olivier Grimaud and Emmanuelle Leray, Care pathways of patients affected with multiple sclerosis in France from 2007 to 2013 using administrative databases and state sequence analysis.

Session 5B: Markov II

• Satu Helske, Jouni Helske and Mervi Eerola, Analysing Complex Life Sequence Data with Hidden Markov Modelling.
• Danilo Bolano, Andre Berchtold and Gilbert Ritschard, A discussion on Hidden Markov Models for Life Course Data.

Session 6A: Transition to adulthood

• Ekaterina Mitrofanova, Russian Generations: Sequencing the Transition to Adulthood.
• Jarl Mooyaart, Aat Liefbroer and Francesco Billari, On the road to success? The intergenerational transmission of disadvantage through the transition to adulthood.

Session 6B: Methods I

• Christian Brzinsky-Fay, Surveys, Memories and Sequences: The Role of Recall Bias and Survey Mode.
• Rafael Tarragó, Xavier Iglesias, Daniel Lapresa and M. Teresa Anguera, A Complementary Study of Elite Fencing Tactics Using Lag Sequential, Polar Coordinate, and T-Pattern Analyses.

Thursday 09.06.2016

Session 8A: Parenthood and childhood

• Marta Mier-Y-Teran and Ana Karina Videgain, Early Parenthood and Inequalities in Family and Work Trajectories.Experiences of women and men in urban Mexico.
• Katharina Loter and Oliver Arránz Becker, Differences in Health between East and West Germans: The "Long Arm of Childhood" under Divergent Political Regimes in Germany.
• Sergi Vidal, Childbearing after Union Dissolution: Does the Sequence of Union Matter?.

Session 8B: Relational sequence networks and combined sequence-survival analysis

• Klaus Hamberger, Relational sequence networks as a tool for studying gendered mobility patterns.
• Florence Rossignon, Matthias Studer, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier and Jean-Marie Le Goff, Childhood co-residence structures and home-leaving: A combination of survival and sequence analyses.
• Matthias Studer, Emanuela Struffolino and Anette E. Fasang, A New Tool for Old Questions: The Sequence-Analysis Multistate Model to Study Relationships Between Time-Varying Covariates and Trajectories.

Session 9A: Care

• Loretta G. Platts, Jenny Head, Sari Stenholm, Holendro Singh Chungkham, Marie Zins and Marcel Goldberg, Physical occupational exposures and healthy life expectancy in a French occupational cohort.
• Helen Eriksson, Taking Turns or Halving It All: Care Strategies of Dual-Caring Couples.
• Tiziana Nazio, Family structures and the organization of care for children in Italy. Sequences of time use by caregivers and activity.

Session 9B: Methods II

• Brendan Halpin, Missingness and truncation in sequence data: A non-self-identical missing state.
• Cees H. Elzinga and Matthias Studer, Normalization of Distance and Similarity in Sequence Analysis.
• Tim Liao and Anette Fasang, Do State Policies Generate Different Life Courses? An Empirical Study of the Case of Divided Germany via a Statistical Assessment.

Session 10A: Applied sequence analysis

• Zachary Van Winkle, Anette Fasang and Marcel Raab, Intergenerational Patterns of Family Formation in East and West Germany.
• Maren Toft, Enduring contexts. Persistent segregation by affluence through the life course.

Session 10B: Multichannel

• Matteo Antonini, Felix Bühlmann and Jean-Luc Heeb, Trajectories of vulnerability: a multi-dimensional approach.
• Thomas Collas, Multiphase Optimal Matching : An Application to Participation Careers in Pâtissiers' Competitions.

Session 12A: Entry into labor market

• Patrick Rousset, Philippe Trouvé and Shirley Lawes, Employment pathways forecasting: What are the future prospects for young people after three years of vocational experience? over/under-performing.
• Marten Middeldorp, Jouke Van Dijk and Arjen Edzes, Job access and the labor market entry and spatial mobility trajectories of higher education graduates in the Netherlands.
• Aleksi Karhula, Jani Erola, Marcel Raab and Anette Fasang, Sibling Similarity in Entry into the Labor Market.

Session 12B: Gender inequalities

• Luize Ratniece and Lisbeth Palmhoej Nielsen, The Cohorts of Convergence: The Danish Women that Changed the Paradigm of Women’s Labor Market Participation.
• Olga Ganjour, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier and Jean-Marie Le Goff, Gender inequality regarding retirement benefits in Switzerland.
• Lydia Malin and Ramsey Wise, Glass Ceilings, Escalators and Revolving Doors: Comparing Gendered Occupational Trajectories and the Upward Mobility of Men and Women in West Germany.

Friday 10.06.2016

Session 14A: Education

• Giampiero D'Alessandro and Alessandra Decataldo, Research of Students’ Performances in Higher Education through Sequence Analysis.
• Benoît Laplante, Pierre Doray and Nicolas Bastien, The age of reproduction. The effect of university tuition fees on enrolment in Quebec and Ontario, 1946–2011.
• Léonard Moulin, David Flacher and Hugo Harari-Kermadec, Tuition Fees and Social Segregation: Lessons from a Natural Experiment a the University of Paris 9-Dauphine.
• Andrew Wallace, A Typology of Delayed Graduation: Using Sequence Analysis of Enrollment Data to Uncover Heterogeneous Paths to a Degree.

Session 14B: Sequence summary indexes

• Georgios Papastefanou, Measuring sequence complexity - A conceptual and empirical comparison of two composite complexity indices.
• Margherita Bussi and Jacqueline O'Reilly, Measuring early employment insecurity and its effects.
• Anna Manzoni and Irma Mooi-Reci, Binary Sequence Dynamics applied to Career Success.
• Katja Dlouhy and Torsten Biemann, Turnover of individuals with similar career sequences as predictor of employer change.

Session 16A: Employment

• Pierre Benz, Felix Bühlmann and André Mach, Professoral Career Patterns between Academia and the Corporate World. Applying sequence analysis to the study of academic autonomy.
• Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, Anton Grau Larsen, Lasse Folke Henriksen and Jacob Aagaard Lunding, Pathways to the Power Elite - Career trajectories in the core of the Danish Networks of Power.
• Danilo Bolano and Michele Haynes, Methodological approaches to profiling and modelling disadvantaged employment pathways. An application to employment trajectories in Australia.

Session 16B: Latent class and other SA related methods

• Piotr Bialowolski, Latent-transition approach to evolution of household debt possession patterns in Poland.
• Stephen Aichele, Patrick Rabbitt and Paolo Ghisletta, Think Fast, Feel Fine, Live Long: A 29-Year Study of Cognition, Health, and Survival in Middle-Aged and Older Adults.
• Jean-Marie Le Goff, A phase-type model of cohabiting union duration.