GGP Newsletter May 2019

GGP Newsletter no. 47 is now available. Find the latest newsletter for updates about the beta version of the new Contextual Database (CDB), the Swedish GGS wave 2 Register Data, and the Polish GGS Pre-harmonized Data files of wave 1 and wave 2.

Internship opportunity quantitative research in population studies

The Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) is offering a research internship in the field of health and retirement. NIDI is one of Europe’s leading research institutes in demography and is located in The Hague, the Netherlands.

GGP Newsletter April 2019

GGP Newsletter no. 46 is now available! Read the latest newsletter for updates on the GGP’s 5th User Conference in collaboration with INED and the IUSSP! Find out who will be our keynotes and how to submit your abstract!
Other items include details on our Data Visualization Workshop with Ilya Kashnitsky and our new GGP Masters Thesis Award. News about recent & upcoming events and publications is also provided.

Ph.D. defence Jarl Mooyaart

Wednesday 24 April 2019 Jarl Mooyaart defended his Ph.D. thesis entiteld 'Linkages between family background, family formation and disadvantage in young adulthood', a study on how the relationship between socio-economic background and family formation has developed over time and what the consequences are for the individual of choosing a particular family formation pathway.

GGP Newsletter March 2019

GGP Newsletter no. 45 is now available! Read the latest newsletter for updates on the GGP’s 5th User Conference and details on themes, planned activities and how to submit your abstract.
Other newsletter items include updates about the GGP’s inclusion on the Estonia Roadmap for Research Infrastructures and the March 2019 kick off meeting the Social Science and Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) project. News on upcoming events and publications is also provided.

GGP Newsletter February 2019

January 2019 saw the start of the Social Science and Humanities Open Science Cloud project (Grant Number: 823782). This €14.5 million project seeks to better integrate Social Science and Humanities Infrastructures with the European Open Science Cloud. In this project, the GGP will be collaborating with the European Linguistics Infrastructure (CLARIN) and the European Value Study (EVS) to develop new approaches to harvesting linguistic data from survey interviews.

Ph.D. defence Petra de Jong

Thursday 17 January 2019 Petra de Jong defended her Ph.D. thesis entiteld 'Between welfare and farewell. The role of welfare systems in intra-European migration decisions', a study on how and to what extent intra-European migration decisions are influenced by welfare systems in both origin and destination countries.

GGP Newsletter December 2018

The Generations and Gender Programme presents it's re-styled Newsletter. This shift to a new platform and layout makes it possible to publish new, dynamic data visuals while continuing to provide the GGP User Community with updates from the GGP as well as news items about upcoming events and recent studies conducted using GGP datasets.

ERC Grant awarded to Helga de Valk

NIDI is very happy to congratulate Helga de Valk for obtaining an ERC Consolidator Grant based on her project proposal Migrant youth mobility in Europe: Patterns, processes and consequences.

NIDI-NVD Master Thesis Award and NVD Poster Award 2018

Bettina Hünteler wins the NIDI-NVD Master Thesis Award 2018 and Ilya Kashnitsky received the NVD Poster award 2018.

GGP at a Glance on dividing household work equally with a partner

In the 1950s and 1960s, families generally followed the male-breadwinner model characterized by a clear gender division of labour both in terms of paid and unpaid work. Equal division of labour nowadays depends heavily on the household task considered.

GGP at a Glance on attitudes towards family formation behaviour

Families in Europe and elsewhere are becoming more complex, with an increasing number of couples living in unmarried cohabitation or experiencing a separation or divorce. The GGP provides data not only on actual family transitions, but also on norms and values regarding family-related behaviour.

Regional population structures at a glance

Diversity in population age structures is all too easily hidden behind national averages. Today every country in Europe faces the challenges of demographic ageing to some degree. Yet, the severity of the issue varies substantially by region, city, or even urban district.

GGP at a Glance on care responsibilities for (elderly) parents with young children

The increase in female labour force participation and dual-earner couples has initiated a continuing discussion in Europe about ways in which families can be helped in combining work and family responsibilities. Uptake of maternity leave and access to high-quality and affordable child care can help families – and women in particular - to combine parenthood and career aspirations. Generally, less attention is paid to care responsibilities for elderly parents.

Special EPC 2018 DEMOS

In this special issue of DEMOS on the occasion of the European Population Conference 2018 articles on: retiring together, educational differences in longevity, timing of family formation and loneliness among older adults, migration decisions in Europe, and the position of migration research.

Photo: Roel Wijnants/Flickr

Frans Willekens receives Doctor honoris causa from Warsaw School of Economics

GGP at a Glance on young adults who are not employed nor in education

Young adults who are not employed nor in education or training are a continuing concern for European policy makers because of their higher risks of social exclusion and poverty.

Tineke Fokkema appointed professor of 'Ageing, Families and Migration'

Tineke Fokkema has been appointed as the new endowed chair of 'Ageing, Families and Migration' at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB) of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). It is the first professorship in the Netherlands to focus on diversity within the population of older migrants, especially in relation to social issues and well-being.

Allianz European Demographer Award 2018 for Fanny Janssen

On 10 April, Professor in Demography Fanny Janssen from the University of Groningen and NIDI, received the prestigious 2018 Allianz European Demographer Award, which was handed out in at the Allianz Forum in Berlin.

Ph.D. defence Leonie Elsenburg

Monday 16 April 2018 Leonie Elsenburg defended her Ph.D. thesis entiteld 'Adverse life events and overweight in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood', a study assessing the relation between adverse early childhood life events and overweight and obesity in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood.