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PhD Project: Occupational Hazard? The Relation between Occupations and Fertility

This project focuses on the relation between occupational characteristics and fertility. Previous research investigating female employment and fertility has focused mainly on labor force status and working hours, with less attention to how aspects such as occupational gender segregation and occupational tasks or working conditions impact fertility. This project will combine insights from sociology, demography, and psychology to engage in an interdisciplinary examination of the impact of occupations on fertility intentions, attempts and outcomes. The study will be of cross-national comparative nature, drawing upon European data such as the European Social Survey as well as Dutch data.

Supervisors: Melinda Mills (RUG) and Harry Ganzeboom (VU)

Funding: This project is partially financed by a grant from the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences

Contract period: September 2008 – September 2012

Publications

Begall, K. and Mills, M. (2012). The influence of educational field, occupation, and occupational sex segregation on fertility in the Netherlands, European Sociological Review, doi: 10.1093/esr/jcs051 (http://esr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/04/26/esr.jcs051)

Begall, K. and Mills, M. (2011). The impact of subjective work control, job strain and work–family conflict on fertility intentions: a European comparison, European Journal of Population, 27(4): 433-456. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10680-011-9244-z)

Begall, K. (2011). The relation of fertility with economic uncertainty, human capital characteristics, and social support in Post-Communist Estonia . In Blossfeld, H.P.,Hofäcker, D. and Bertolini, S. (eds.). Youth on Globalised Labour Markets: Rising Uncertainty and its Effects on Early Employment and Family Lives in Europe. Opladen: Barbara Budrich.

Mills, M. and Begall, K. (2010). The impact of gender preferences on third births in Europe: a multilevel examniation of men and women. Population Studies 64(1): 77-95. ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00324720903497081)

Mills, M., Mencarini, L., Tanturri, M.L. and Begall, K. (2008). Gender equity and fertility intentions in Italy and the Netherlands, Demographic Research 18: 1-26. (http://www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol18/1/18-1.pdf [PDF])

Begall, K. and Mills, M. (2007). Liever een jongetje en een meisje: Voorkeur van ouders in 25 Europese landen onderzocht, Demos 23: 7-9. (http://nidi.nl/Content/NIDI/demos/2007/demos-23-10-begall.pdf [PDF])

Presentations

"Non-standard Work Schedules and Childbearing in the Netherlands: A mixed-method couple analysis", paper presented  at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, May 3 - 5 2012, San Francisco, USA.

"Non-standard work schedules and fertility", paper presented at ECSR 20th Anniversary Conference, 14-17 December 2011, Dublin, Ireland.

" The Impact of Educational Field and Occupational Sex Segregation on the Transition to First Birth: Effects for Men and Women", paper presented at the Fourth Dutch Demography Day, 9 November 2011, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

"Non-standard work schedules and fertility", paper presented at PopFest 2011, 27-29 June, Groningen, The Netherlands.

"Non-standard work schedules and fertility", paper presented at the Dag van de Sociologie, 26 May 2011, Ghent, Belgium.

"The Impact of Occupation and Occupational Gender Segregation on Fertility in the Netherlands", paper presented at the Joint ECSR, QMSS2, and Transeurope Conference, 30 September - 2 October 2010, Bamberg, Germany.

"The Impact of Occupation and Occupational Gender Segregation on Fertility in the Netherlands", paper presented at the European Population Conference, September 1-4, 2010, Vienna, Austria.

"The Influence of Labor Market Participation and Educational Attainment on the Transition to First Birth in Post-Communist Estonia", poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, April 15 -17 2010, Dallas, USA.

"Work-Fertility Conflict: A European Comparison", paper presented at the Third Dutch Demography Day, October 22 2009, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

"Work-Fertility Conflict: A European Comparison", paper presented at the QMSS2 and TransEurope (Junior Researcher’s) Workshop “Advances in Family and Fertility Research”, October 15 to October 19 2009, Groningen, The Netherlands.

"Work-Fertility Conflict: A European Comparison", paper presented at the 3rd TransEurope  Workshop “Transnationalization, globalization and its effects on women’s employment and family transitions”, September 4/5 2009, Tallinn, Estonia. 

"Gender preferences for children in Europe. Comparison of ESS and European Value Study", presented with Melinda Mills at the European Social Survey symposium ‘The ESS in comparative perspective’, November 20 2007, The Hague, The Netherlands.

"Gender preference for children in Europe", paper presented with Melinda Mills at the Second Dutch Demography Day, October 9 2007, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

 

Courses and Summer schools

QMSS2 Summer school "Analysis methods for cross-national comparisons", 28 August - 4 September 2011, University of Leuven, Belgium

QMSS2 Summer school "Advanced methods for the analysis of complex event history data", 27 June - 3 July 2010, University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

Participant and assistant of Melinda Mills and Fiona Steele in computer sessions at QMSS2 Summer school "Introduction to Event History Analysis with a Special Focus on Cross-National Comparisons", August 18 to August 26 2009, Paris, France.

ECSR/TransEurope Summer School Globalization, Social Inequality and the Life Course, August 27 to August 31 2007, Groningen, The Netherlands. 

 

Ad hoc reviewer: International Sociology, Journal of Marriage and the Family, European Sociological Review, European Journal of Population