Methodological Avenues for the Study of Career Pathways

The timing of joint career and family transitions is the focus of two studies, based on national surveys of young adults (20–29) conducted in Germany in 1991 and 1996 that address these issues by using two different analytic strategies based on Magnusson's (1985) “person” approach to studying developmental phenomena. In the first study correspondence analysis was employed not only to visualize connections between persons and the measures used to...