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Jaap Oude Mulder received the Junior Research Prize of Utrecht School of Economics (USE) for his paper "Organizations' ways of employing early retirees: the role of age-based HR policies". This paper has been published this year in The Gerontologist.
Josje ten Kate wins the NIDI Master Thesis Award 2015 with her master thesis entiteld "Collectivism, marriage, and well-being; how and why the extent to which marriage leads to greater subjective well-being depends on national collectivism".
Wednesday 1 July 2015 Kim Caarls defended her Ph.D. thesis entiteld 'Living apart together across borders; how Ghanaian couples form, transform, or dissolve in the context of international migration', a study addressing the role of international migration on how families, and couples in particular, are formed, transformed or dissolved.
The European Commission regards intra-European mobility as a way to increase support among citizens for the European integration project. The underlying idea is that Europeans who go and live in a different European country to work, to study or for family reasons will become more European and thus support the European project ‘from the bottom up’. But is this really so? Researchers linked to the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) investigated.
Matthijs Kalmijn, professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and research fellow at NIDI, has been awarded an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council. The grant allows him to develop an extensive research programme on Intergenerational Reproduction and Solidarity in an Era of Family Complexity.
As of April 22, the new website of the Mobile Welfare project is launched: www.mobilewelfare.org. Mobile Welfare - European welfare states in times of mobility - is a project that aims to understand the role of welfare systems in destination and origin countries for migration patterns within and towards Europe.
As of December 19th, the new website of the CONOPP project is launched: conopp.com. CONOPP - Contexts of Opportunity - is a project on explaining cross-national variation in the links between childhood disadvantage, young adult demographic behaviour and later-life outcomes. CONOPP is funded under the 7th Framework Programme through an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council.
Anyone who has read his fair share of newspapers during the past year must have come across the name of Thomas Piketty and his plea to tackle the problem of income inequality. Numerous reviews and reactions have been raised. To name just one conspicuous commentator, Paul Krugman states that: “Mr. Piketty’s contribution is serious, discourse-changing scholarship in a way most best sellers aren’t.” But what does Piketty have in store for demographers? In my view demographers can benefit considerably from reading Piketty’s magnum opus.
A new UNFPA–NIDI survey on Resource Tracking: read the UNFPA–NIDI Family Planning Survey Update Newsletter no. 1, December 2015.
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