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LIVES Impact

LIVES Impact (ISSN: 2297-6124) publishes regularly briefs with policy-relevant research findings from studies conducted at the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research LIVES (LIVES Centre). It is aimed at professionals, public officials and representatives active in social policy and related fields.

Series editors

Dario Spini & Laure Sandoz
Email: dario.spini@unil.ch / laure.sandoz@unil.ch

Escaping precariousness? Trajectories of citizens from Eastern and Central Europe living in Switzerland

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Nr 18 - June 2024

Using participatory research and a web-based interactive map to promote health

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Nr 17 - December 2022

Assessing multidimensional complexity in home care:

Congruencies and discrepancies between patients and nurses

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Nr 16 - December 2022

Labour Market Integration:

Refugees and Asylum Seekers Face Ongoing Integration Challenges

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Nr 15 - August 2022

Regularising Undocumented Migrant Workers:

What Does it Mean for Their Well-Being?

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Nr 14 - June 2022

Life-long impact of disadvantaged socioeconomic conditions in childhood on health in old age

What difference does the welfare state make to improve healthy ageing?

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Nr 13 - January 2022

Special edition

Policy actions aimed at homelessness: half and mini measures

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Special Issue N°4 - December 2020

Special edition

The impact of COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020 on the mental health of the population

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Special Issue N°3 - October 2020

Edition spéciale

Family Vulnerability during Lockdown

What are the Paths of Resilience?

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Special Issue No2 - July 2020

Special Issue

How to mobilise protective, supportive and resilient behaviours effectively in times of crisis? 

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full version FR.
full version DE.

Special Issue No1 - April 2020

Vocational versus general education 

Employment and Earnings over the life course in Switzerland 

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No 12 - May 2020

Rehabilitation before pension?

A longitudinal study sheds light on Swiss Disability insurance reforms 

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No 11 - October 2019

LIVES Impact 11

Mental health through internet-based intervention 

Using LIVIA to overcome grief

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No 10 - July 2019

LIVES Impact 10

Unemployement and its medium - to long - term effects 

A reason to rethink labour market integration support schemes? 

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No 9 - November 2018

LIVES Impact 9

Historoically situated, avoidable and socially unequal 

A demographic perspective on young adult excess mortality in Switzerland 

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No 8 - June 2018

LIVES Impact 8

Lone parenthood in the life course 

A future challenge for socialy policy? 

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No 7 - January 2018

LIVES Impact 7

The "gender factory" 

or how the Swiss education system (re)produces inequalities between women & men 

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No 6 - December 2017

LIVES Impact 6

Career adaptabilities 

Using contextual and psychological resources for successful work transitions 

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No 5 - June 2017

LIVES Impact 5

Will fathers in Switzerland soon have access to leave? 

Insights into the gender equality potential of leave policies 

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No 4 - March 2017

LIVES Impact 4

Utilizing networks to find employment? 

Social networks as a labour market integration tool for unemployed and disadvantaged people

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No 3 - Août 2016

LIVES Impact 3

Retirement Provision 2020 : A Reform Towards More Social Inequality? "Active Ageing" and Older People of Migrant Background 

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No 2 - June 2016

LIVES Impact 2

The life-course perspective in social policy 

Why and how it could be useful ? 

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No 1 - November 2015

LIVES Impact 1