My PhD dissertation titled “Family Policy Outcomes: combining institutional and demographic explanations of women’s employment and earnings inequality in OECD countries, 1975-2005” is now available for download. The dissertation was approved by a committee of 6 renowned scholars, and I will defend it during a public defense on January 10th, 2014. The dissertation addresses how family… Continue Reading
The Journal Sociological Research Online had requested me to write a review on Women and Society: The road to change, a book edited by Ashok S. Kolaskar and Motilal Dash. [The book] presents the personal narratives of 22 professionally successful women in India. This resulted in a collection of diverse chapters, ranging from biographies to… Continue Reading
influence.ME is an R package for detecting influential data in multilevel regression models (or, mixed effects models as they are referred to in the R community). The application of multilevel models has become common practice, but the development of diagnostic tools has lagged behind. Hence, we developed influence.ME, which calculates standardized measures of influential data… Continue Reading
The Luxembourg Income Study provides an invaluable source of income-surveys that are made compable across countries and over time. Not all the measurements of income are directly comparable, however. In some datasets the income variables were measured gross of income taxes and social contributions, whereas in other datasets they were measured net of income taxes… Continue Reading
Recently, I have been updating my online presence as a researcher. It’s amazing to see the sheer amount of online tools available to academics: It seems like we are a market now! I thought I’d share the tools I currently use professionally, and of course you are welcome to connect with me on any of… Continue Reading
Last week, I was invited to present my dissertation research during the LIS Summer Workshop. My lecture was titled “Family Policies, Women’s Earnings, and Between-Household Inequalities: Using LIS for comparative analyses“. It consisted of three parts. The first part of my lecture dealt with my argument to combine institutional and demographic explanations of women’s employment.… Continue Reading
Don’t venture too far on the internet: bad neighborhoods were located! Internet bad neighborhoods are those geographical areas where the majority of spam and phishing mails originate from. Interestingly, some regions specialize in spam, while others focus on phishing for your bank account. Having successfully defended his dissertation at the University of Twente (the Netherlands),… Continue Reading
I was invited to present my research at the “Reforming Social Security Lunch Seminar Series” of the university of Leiden. The lecture will be on Friday, February 22nd. Below an abstract of this lecture is given. Institutional and Demographic Explanations of Women’s Employment Family policies have stimulated women’s employment in OECD countries in recent decades.… Continue Reading
A colleague and friend of mine, Katia Begall, successfully defended her PhD dissertation: Occupational Hazard? The Relationship between Working Conditions and Fertility. It’s is a great study, several chapters of which already were published in high impact journals. From the press release: Good qualifications, a career with good prospects, a full-time job in a mainly… Continue Reading
The Work and Family Researchers Network is seeking applicants for the 2013-2014 Early Career Work and Family Scholars Program. Fifteen scholars will be selected for the program. They advertise: To be eligible, candidates must have received their doctorate in 2010 or later, and have yet to progress into tenured or secure senior level positions. Those anticipating… Continue Reading
