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This is a selection of revised versions of papers originally presented at a conference on the applications of event history analysis to life course research held in 1985 in Berlin West Germany. contributions deal with various substantive issues in life course research and with several unsolved methodological problems in event history By life course research we mean the study of social processes extending over the individual life span or over significant portions of it especially the family cycle (marriage and child-rearing) educational and training histories and employment and occupational careers....By event history analysis we mean various statistical methods for examining shifts between successive states (or categories) within some continuous interval of time on the basis of a complete temporal record for some sample....The chapters in this volume are arranged into three parts. The first two parts deal primarily with some major life domain. Those in Part I deal with job and unemployment processes and those in Part II concern migration and family formation. Chapters in Part III raise and attempt to resolve various methodological issues in event history analysis. (EXCERPT)