Structural developments in the labour market have an impact on the life course of individuals. In this video, Lin Rouvroye, PhD researcher, presents her work on flexible employment among younger workers which adds to NIDI’s longstanding tradition of studying working lives. This project is funded by the KNAW’s Research Fund (Onderzoeksfonds). Also read about corresponding […]
Men and women born in the early twentieth century married late. The age at which half of the men married was around 28.5 years, and for women it was almost 27 years. Many men and women did not get married at all; about 20 per cent were still single at the age of 35. This […]
GGP Newsletter no. 68 is now available! Read about a fieldwork update, the 3rd GGP Connect webinar and a new book launch. Read more in the latest newsletter of the Generations and Gender Programme: GGP Newsletter May 2021.
NIDI has a long tradition in studying union and family formation. In this video Gusta Wachter explains how she expands this research to the children of immigrants in her PhD project. The project is funded by the KNAW’s Research Fund (Onderzoeksfonds). Also read about corresponding previous NIDI research on integration of the second generation […]
“In the short term, we may not yet expect newspaper reports that Ajax supporters of Turkish descent have come to blows with Feyenoord supporters of Turkish descent. But we should not exclude it as a future possibility.” This statement was published as part of the survey results of The Integration of the European Second Generation. […]
People are becoming parents at increasingly older ages. In 2019, Dutch women for the first time ever were 30 years old on average when becoming mothers. In this video, Daniël van Wijk, PhD researcher, talks about the reasons behind this postponement of childbearing. This is part of a research project on the links between employment insecurity and family formation […]
Between the end of February and the beginning of May 1975, researchers from NIDI surveyed 5,000 married women across 188 municipalities in the Netherlands for the National Research on Fertility and Parenting Motivation. The aim of this comprehensive survey was to gain insight into the rapid decline in marital fertility that had happened in the […]
In this video, Petra de Jong, postdoctoral researcher, presents her work on the emigration of the second generation, a new research line that links to previous NIDI research on emigration from the Netherlands. The project is funded by the KNAW’s Research Fund (Onderzoeksfonds). Also read about corresponding previous NIDI research on emigration intentions In […]
For the first time since the 1950s, the Netherlands experienced a long-term wave of emigration at the start of the 21st century. NIDI research among a group of potential emigrants showed that the Dutch who intend to leave are mainly looking for more space, nature, and friendly people: the good life that they cannot find […]
GGP Newsletter no. 67 is now available! Find a Call for Papers for the 6th GGP User Conference and read about the 2nd GGP Connect webinar and the new data release in Moldova. Read more in the latest newsletter of the Generations and Gender Programme: GGP Newsletter April 2021.
In this video, Willem Vermeulen, PhD researcher, presents his work on union dissolution which links directly to NIDI’s longstanding tradition of research on the second demographic transition. The project is funded by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO). Also read about corresponding previous NIDI research on the second demographic transition In 2020 we […]
GGP Newsletter no. 66 is now available! Find a summary of the 1st GGP Connect webinar and read about the new questions added to the GGS Baseline Questionnaire. Read more in the latest newsletter of the Generations and Gender Programme: GGP Newsletter March 2021.
The (first) demographic transition of a nation, considered the ‘bread and butter’ for all demographers, describes in a stylized way the historical shift in a country’s demographic development. Starting from a situation with relatively stable population growth where traditionally high mortality is balanced by traditionally high fertility, mortality begins to decline first due to modernization […]
GGP Newsletter no. 65 is now available! Find the latest updates of the fieldwork in Moldova and read about two new technical papers. Read more in the latest newsletter of the Generations and Gender Programme: GGP Newsletter February 2021.
In this video, Wanda van Hemelrijck, postdoctoral researcher, presents her work in the Future longevity inequalities project which adds to NIDI’s longstanding tradition of research on life expectancy and mortality forecasting. The project is funded by a VICI Grant (PI Fanny Janssen) by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO). Also read about the corresponding […]
The obesity epidemic in Europe is increasingly affecting the health of individuals and the life expectancy levels within countries. According to an extensive comparative study in 26 European countries, without obesity, the life expectancy in Europe would be, on average, one year higher. The United States of America is known as the country with the […]
