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Footnote The most recent survey of 1998/99 of West Germans born 1964 and 1971 is also connected to the case records of the official employment and unemployment register. Besides numerous articles, the German Life History Study has produced technical reports (Mayer/Brückner 1989; Brückner 1993; Brückner/Mayer 1995; Brückner/Mayer 1998), and a number of books on substantive issues (Blossfeld 1989; Grundmann 1992; Mayer/Allmendinger/Huinink 1991; Wagner 1989, 1997; Allmendinger 1989, 1994; Trappe 1995; Solga 1995; Lauterbach 1994; Henz 1996; Becker 1993; Konietzka 1999; Huinink/Mayer et al. 1995, Huinink 1995, Zühlke 2000) on, among else, education, training, income trajectories, social mobility, employment and occupational careers, family formation and divorce. All data files but for the most recent surveys are publicly available via the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin or the Central Survey Archive in Cologne. [Return to Mayer's Presentation]