Mens & Maatschappij - Volume 90, Issue 4, 2015

Summary Education as a cleavage in the Dutch labour market, 1993-2011 This article describes developments in the association between educational attainment and labour market outcomes in the Netherlands over the last 20 years. Education has remained a very important asset on the labour market. The higher educated have higher participation rates and attain better jobs than the lower educated. The labour mark Read More

Summary A cushy life, or being dead broke: Two decades of income inequality Did income inequality decrease since the 1990s due to less pronounced differentials in educational attainment among the Dutch population, as modernisation theory presumes? Have the growing labour participation of women and the ensuing demise of the one-earner family translated into greater income disparities? And has public supp Read More

Summary Educational homogamy in the Netherlands revisited. Stability or increased segmentation on the marriage market? Using large-scale, representative survey data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 waves of Aanvullende Voorzieningengebruik Onderzoek (AVO) we study trends in educational homogamy for the Netherlands between 1960 and 2010. Prior studies for the Netherlands focused on relative homogamy, t Read More

Summary Trends in ethnocentric reactions among the Dutch population, 1979-2012 Based upon predictions from 1996 about future trends in ethnocentric reactions in the Netherlands, we investigate the trends in ethnocentric reactions among the general public from 1979 to 2012. We distinguish two forms of ethnocentric reactions: negative attitudes towards ethnic minorities and public support for ethnic discrimination Read More

Summary Twenty years later … In 1996, a group of Utrecht and Nijmegen based sociologists compiled a study on social segmentation in the Netherlands in 2015. In their contributions, they formulated testable predictions for 2015, based on the most up-to-date theories, models, and data. In this issue of Mens & Maatschappij, authors look back at and test these predictions, using data collected since 1996. Key findings are s Read More