ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the key findings of the Globalife project. It provides a theoretical perspective by sketching the characteristics of the globalisation process and its effects on individual life courses. These theoretical considerations are then confronted with the most important empirical findings of the Globalife project which studied the general changes in central transitions of the life course resulting from globalisation, but also the country-specific form that these changes take in various modern societies. A sequence of four research phases was used to analyse central transitions in the life course and employment career of women and men. They are the transition from youth to adulthood, the transitions during the employment course of men in mid-career, the transitions during the employment course of mid-life women, paying particular attention to family formation and motherhood and the changes in late careers and the transition to retirement.
