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Social inequality in the life course (SILC)

SILC studies how inequality in employment, education, social values and other social domains is shaped across the life-course. 

In our research, we try to explore, understand, and explain life-course inequality in a dynamic economic, policy and institutional environment. In addition, we study a broad range of topics - (precarious) employment, education, cultural participation, gender role ideology and political attitudes in historically and cross-national comparative perspective. To achieve this, we also develop advanced statistical methods that allow us to understand life-course processes and how they interact with individual, organizational, and institutional contexts. The group specializes in the analysis of large-scale datasets from various sources (survey, register and Big Data) and is also active in the collection and harmonization of such data. 

SILC is coordinated by Dimitris Pavlopoulos(d.pavlopoulos@vu.nl)

Group members

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Saba Aslam Khan

PhD candidate

dr. Stef Bouwhuis

Assistant Professor

Anika Chowdhury

PhD candidate

prof. dr. Harry Ganzeboom

Professor

Laura Eberlein

PhD candidate

Muhammad Farooq

PhD candidate

dr. Mauricio Garnier Villarreal

Assistant Professor

Santiago Gomez Echeverría

PhD candidate

prof. dr. Aat Liefbroer

Endowed chair

Max Littel

Researcher

prof. Ineke Maas

Endowed chair

dr. Jasper Muis

Assistant Professor

dr. Ineke Nagel

Assistant Professor

Maartje Orsel

Research associate

Dimitris Pavlopoulos

Contactperson & Programme leader

Tamira Sno

PhD candidate

Koen Steenks

PhD candidate

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