A Life Space Perspective to Approach Individual Demographic Processes

Lelièvre, Éva; Robette, Nicolas

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“…Recently, a few sequence analysis papers took into account one of the key elements shaping life courses in Elder’s paradigm (Giele and Elder, 1998), for example, the fact that individual life courses are embedded into social relationships, which means that “linked lives” are studied. Most applications have dealt with the transmission of histories between parents and children (Falcon 2012; Fasang and Raab 2014; Liefbroer and Elzinga 2012; Robette, Lelièvre, and Bry 2012), although a few papers have focused on husband and wife histories (Lelièvre and Robette 2010; Lesnard 2008; Robette, Solaz, and Pailhé 2009).…”

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A “Global Interdependence” Approach to Multidimensional Sequence Analysis

Robette

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Lelièvre

2015

Sociological Methodology

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While sequence analysis has now become a widespread approach in social sciences, several strategies have been developed to handle the specific issue of multidimensional sequences. These strategies have distinct characteristics, related to the way they explicitly emphasize multidimensionality, interdependence and parsimony. In this context, we introduce an original approach based on structural links between the dimensions, combining Optimal Matching Analysis (OMA), Multidimensional Scaling (MDS), canonical Partial Least Square (PLS) and Clustering, an approach we call "Globally Interdependent Multiple Sequence Analysis" (GIMSA). We then apply GIMSA to mother-daughter employment histories in France and discuss the value of this method.

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A “Global Interdependence” Approach to Multidimensional Sequence Analysis

Robette

Bry

Lelièvre

2015

Sociological Methodology

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“…Although deficiencies in the destination language may not affect successful 6 Hermansen (2022) has created a visualization tool to capture differences and convergence in workplace dimensions across immigrants, immigrant descendants, and non-immigrant natives. 7 The life space refers to the locations where and with which individuals interact during their daily life and across their life course (Lelièvre and Robette 2010).…”

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“… 7 The life space refers to the locations where and with which individuals interact during their daily life and across their life course (Lelièvre and Robette 2010). …”

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Linguistic Barriers to Immigrants’ Labor Market Integration in Italy

Ghio

Bratti

Bignami

2022

International Migration Review

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This article investigates whether and to what extent poor proficiency in Italian impairs immigrants’ labor market integration in Italy. Using individual-level survey data, we apply instrumental variables methods to leverage presumably exogenous variations in Italian proficiency induced by immigrants’ demo-linguistic characteristics (e.g., age at arrival, linguistic distance between mother tongue and destination language, speaking Italian during childhood) and their interplays. We find that, given the low-skill nature of Italy's immigrant labor market, poor proficiency in communication skills (speaking and understanding Italian) produces larger penalties for immigrants’ labor force participation and employment than does the lack of formal skills (reading and writing). In contrast, no effect is found on immigrants’ job characteristics like the type of contract and full-time or part-time work. Whereas female immigrants were more penalized than males by poor linguistic proficiency in labor force participation, immigrants in linguistic groups that were more likely to work with (for) co-nationals were less affected by linguistic barriers than other immigrant groups. Yet, when investigating perceived integration outcomes, immigrants working with (for) co-nationals fared worse on feeling at home, feeling accepted, and overall life satisfaction in Italy. As our analysis shows, linguistic enclaves in workplaces, while not always representing a hurdle to immigrants’ labor market success, can generate trade-offs for other non-labor market integration outcomes. These findings highlight that the development of linguistic skills should be prioritized in migration policy agendas, taking into account heterogeneity in immigrants’ demographic and linguistic profiles.

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Demography, time and space

Bell

2015

J Pop Research

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A Life Space Perspective to Approach Individual Demographic Processes

Cited by 5 publications

References 41 publications

A “Global Interdependence” Approach to Multidimensional Sequence Analysis

A “Global Interdependence” Approach to Multidimensional Sequence Analysis

Linguistic Barriers to Immigrants’ Labor Market Integration in Italy

Demography, time and space

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