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Beyond marriage: Women's economic independence and separation in comparative perspective
Full text linkWelfare state regimes and the economic consequences of separation: Evidence from the European Household panel Survey, 1994-1998
No full textThe cultural integration of immigrants in the Netherlands; a description and explanation of modern attitudes of Turks, Moroccans, Surinamese, Antilleans and the indegenous population
No full textWho marries whom?: the role of social origin, education and high culture in mate selection of industrial societies during the twentieth century
No full textConcentratie en achterstand: over de samenhang tussen etnische concentratie en de sociaal-economische positie onder allochtonen en autochtonen
No full textDoes the cultural context matter?: The effect of a country's gender-role attitudes on female labor supply
No full textDespite substantial country variation in gender-role attitudes and female labor supply and theoretical arguments stressing the consequences of contextual attitudes for individual behavior, prior research did not find evidence for an effect of a country's gender-role attitudes on female labor supply. In this study I reassess this finding using a powerful multilevel design on the 2008 wave of the European Values Study on 33 countries. I find a substantial positive and independent effect of a country's egalitarian gender-role attitudes on individual women's odds of labor market attachment. The original, gross effect can for one-fourth be attributed to an effect of individual gender-role attitudes and one-tenth to an institutional effect. These findings indicate that the cultural (attitude) context matters for female labor supply. Key words: gender-role attitudes, female labor supply, contextual effects, cross-national researc
For better and for worse: The relationship between union dissolution and self-assessed health in European Panel Data
No full textWe investigate the association between union dissolution and self-assessed health in European panel data. Previous studies suggest that this association might be negative, yet it is unclear to what extent this reflects causation (an effect of union dissolution of health) and/or selection (an effect of health on union dissolution). We analyzed the relationship between self-assessed health and 3,894 union dissolutions in about 60,000 respondents aged 18–59 across eight waves of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). Fixed-effect panel analyses show that the negative association between dissolution and self-assessed health is not due to a general negative effect of divorce on health. Rather, after union dissolution self-assessed health improves among some individuals, while for others it declines. Compared to being in a union continuously, union dissolution seems to cause increases and decreases in health. We also find evidence for a negative effect of self-assessed health on dissolution risks. This selection effect appears to be associated with being in poor self-assessed health for a prolonged period of time rather than by the immediate effect of a health decline. Our results support the idea that the association between union dissolution and self-assessed health is an outcome of both causation and selection and that the effect of union dissolution on self-assessed health is heterogeneous. Keywords: Union dissolution, Divorce, Self-assessed health, Panel data, Fixed-effects models, Event-history analysis, Europ
The Economic Consequences of Divorce for Women in the European Union: The Impact of Welfare State Arrangements
No full textWie trouwt met wie binnen de opleidingselite?: De invloed van studierichting en onderwijsniveau
Full text linkDoes the ethnic gap in homeownership vary by income?: An analysis on Dutch survey data
Full text linkLower levels of homeownership among immigrant populations have frequently been related to the particular financial constraints that immigrant households can face. Various problems have been raised with this explanation for the ethnic gap in homeownership rates. This paper responds to these criticisms by sensitizing the financial constraints explanation to the possibility of differential effects of ethnicity depending upon level of income. The hypothesis that the ethnic gap is stronger for lower income groups is tested through logistic analyses of the housing tenure of Turkish and Moroccan immigrants and a comparison group of native citizens in the Netherlands. High-income Turks are revealed to have comparable rates of homeownership to high-income natives, whereas in low-income groups a large ethnic gap exists. The ethnic gap in homeownership among low-income groups could not be explained by other financial constraints (education, couple's earning status, parental resources). Housing preferences and discrimination are possible explanations for this ethnic gap among low-income households
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