The Comparative Life Course and Inequality Research Centre (CLIC) is part of the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the EUI. CLIC engages with research on how inequalities shape and are shaped over the life course. In our research we study how individuals’ pathways unfold from birth to death in relation to individual characteristics, institutional and organizational contexts, as well as historical events, and how individual trajectories and critical transitions contribute to the production of socio-economic, gender and ethnoracial inequality. Examples of our focal areas of research include studies into the trends, patterns, and underlying mechanisms of educational inequalities and social mobility, family dynamics and demographic behaviour and their relation to socio-economic inequalities, the gendered division of paid and unpaid work, family formation and intergenerational relationships, migration and ethnic inequalities, discrimination, and health inequality over the life course. CLIC researchers use various sorts of data, including panel data, cross-nationally comparative datasets, experimental data, and official register data from various countries. CLIC researchers also collect their own data through survey, field and lab experiments, as well as fieldwork in schools, families, and organizations. CLIC organizes seminars and round-table sessions with internal and external speakers, and forms the cornerstone of the EUI’s research on social stratification, social mobility, and life course dynamics.
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Events, Projects & Collaborations
2026 Winter Programme
- 05.03: “After the Callback: Are Ethnic and Gender Penalties Consistent Across the Recruitment Process?” Filip Olsson (EUI)
- 12.02: "Why do so few ethnic discrimination claims succeed? How plaintiff and defendant arguments shape outcomes of labor market discrimination claims in the Netherlands" Billie Martiniello (EUI)
- 15.01: "Gender Essentialized Skills, Education and the Gender Wage Gap" Camille Portier (EUI)
2025 Fall Programme
- 04.12: “Perinatal Health in Educational Attainment: Individual and Population Level Relevance” Juho Härkönen (EUI)
- 27.11: “Does Immigrant Integration Foster Positive Attitudes? Evidence from England” Rachael Kawasaki (EUI)
- 30.10: “Agreeing in Principle, Disagreeing on Policy: How Beliefs About the Gender Pay Gap Shape Fairness Concerns and Policy Preferences” Ole Brüggemann (EUI and University of Konstanz)
- 09.10: “The Landscape of Symbolic Boundaries: Everyday Classifications and Perceived Social Distance in a Multidimensional World” Flavien Ganter (EUI)