What life-course research can contribute to futures studies

Komp-Leukkunen, Kathrin

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2020.102651

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“…They give life courses a structure, and they can steer lives into new directions. The central concept used is that of the life event , which is an event that a person considers to be of exceptional importance in their own life ( Komp-Leukkunen, 2020 ). Events that are often considered life events are, for example, weddings, the birth of children, and retirement.…”

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“…There are no definitive lists of what constitutes a life event, causes a life-course effect, or acts as a turning point. Instead, these concepts have to be understood from the perspective of the individuals concerned ( Komp-Leukkunen, 2020 ).…”

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“…Life-course research uses life phases and life-course structures to portray life courses in broad strokes. Life phases are homogenous periods in a person’s life ( Komp-Leukkunen, 2020 ). Individuals usually engage in a characteristic activity throughout a life phase, such as attending educational classes or working for pay.…”

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“…The most commonly used life-course structure is the tripartite one that describes life courses as a sequence of youth, middle age, and old age. Youth is dedicated to education, middle age to paid work, and old age to retirement ( Kohli, 2007 ; Komp-Leukkunen, 2020 ).…”

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A Life-Course Perspective on Older Workers in Workplaces Undergoing Transformative Digitalization

Komp-Leukkunen

2022

The Gerontologist

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Workplaces are digitalizing, which leaves many older individuals with the choice between upskilling and early retirement. How they approach this choice influences their financial well-being, the size of the workforce, and the financial sustainability of pension schemes. The present article explores how the life-course perspective can be used to explore the situation of older workers in workplaces undergoing transformative digitalization. The life-course perspective suggests that the transformative digitalization of workplaces does not change what life events older workers encounter. However, it modifies how the events affect older workers and their capabilities for striking a work-life balance. Additionally, digitalization changes life-course structures. It can lead to earlier or later retirement, which changes the length of the life phases of middle age and old age—and possibly creates new social inequalities in life courses. The effects of transformative digitalization on older workers vary across cohorts and countries, which is typical for the principle of anchoring life courses in time and place. Future research can use the present article as a guideline for which concepts may be useful in studies on older workers in digitalizing workplaces.

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Section: Life Events the Origins Of Life-course Effects And Turning P...mentioning

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A Life-Course Perspective on Older Workers in Workplaces Undergoing Transformative Digitalization

Komp-Leukkunen

2022

The Gerontologist

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“…In order to analyze the impact of age on researchers, a life-course pattern was proposed by Fu et al in [17], in which the faculty with different characteristics such as the gender, the research fields and the learning ability, etc. were analyzed according to their life trajectories [18], [19]. In the analysis of life-course pattern, there are some classical theories which are crucial to model the life trajectories of the faculty in universities, include the cumulative advantage, utility maximizing and the obsolescence theory, etc.…”

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A Research Funding Allocation Scheme in Multi-Layer Networks for the Growth of Talents

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The talents training is a critical issue of social development. Particularly, the growing of academic researchers in research-oriented university is a hot topic for human resources management. However, the challenge of how to achieve effective talent development with minimal macro-regulation is a challenge problem that has yet to be solved. As a school administrator, the allocation of talent project funding is a viable point of focus, although it is difficult to analyze because of the complexity structure of the universities. Inspired by the complex networks, we model the academic talents training problem in university as a multi-layer network in this paper, and the characteristics which may influence the development of faculty are investigated. Then, the development of each scholar is fitted by a growth curve in life-course pattern, based on which a research funding allocation scheme is proposed from the perspective of human resources managers. In the proposed scheme, the funding quotas of several levels are allocated to different colleges at the proper time in order to obtain the global optimization of talent training for the whole university. The simulation results show that the proposed funding allocation scheme can improve the final academic ability and the normalized score of outstanding scholars compared with the traditional proportion based allocation scheme. INDEX TERMSMulti-layer network, academic talents training, life-course pattern, research funding allocation, research-oriented university.

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Conclusion: Converging Paths and New Directions of Polish Migrant Families in Ireland

Bobek,

2024

Polish Families in Ireland

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What life-course research can contribute to futures studies

Cited by 9 publications

References 68 publications

A Life-Course Perspective on Older Workers in Workplaces Undergoing Transformative Digitalization

A Life-Course Perspective on Older Workers in Workplaces Undergoing Transformative Digitalization

A Research Funding Allocation Scheme in Multi-Layer Networks for the Growth of Talents

Conclusion: Converging Paths and New Directions of Polish Migrant Families in Ireland

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