The chapters of this book give the answers to questions related to labour market transitions between labour and care and transitions between the labour market and retirement. E.g. can men cross the bridge to the field of care as easily as women? Which arrangements help women to return to the labour market after some years of fulltime motherhood? Is parttime retirement to be preferred to fulltime retirement? And: who benefits from leave and other life course arrangements? Scientists will be triggered by the theoretical notions and the firm empirical analyses.