Mariska Van Der Horst
Biographic Data
| ID | 269552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariska Van Der Horst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariska |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Horst |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER HORST M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5988-7318 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Translation of Intergenerational Care Potential Into Care Receipt of Older Parents
This study prospectively examined the extent to which intergenerational care potential translated into parent’s care receipt. Data were from 510 parents (aged 70–97 years at baseline) who reported on their 1496 adult children in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam, with seven observations over ten years. Joint care potential considered the number of children and their care potential types. Children with high care potential lived nearby, had fr…
Cliff-edge or atypical retirement? Exploring retirement trajectories of post-war baby boomers in The Netherlands
This study explores retirement processes. State pension age is gradually increasing in many countries, including the Netherlands. The traditional retirement pathway where individuals have a cliff-edge transition from a full-time job with a permanent contract to full retirement appears to be applicable to an ever-smaller group of employees. Hence, more recently, ‘retirement’ is viewed not as a single transition out of the labour force but rather a…
Parental care among only children in China
Being the only child in the family means concentrated responsibilities for parental care. This study presents findings from 23 semi-structured interviews with Chinese only children, exploring their care motivation, provision, and experiences within the context of Chinese filial piety and social change. We developed a typology by examining how Chinese only children responded to their parents' care needs and why they provided care (or chose not to)…
Adapting to an older workforce
The UK government has called for employers to make work adaptations in response to changes in health individuals may experience as they age. However, government assumptions place too much emphasis on the voluntary actions of employers and managers, without placing the management of health in a wider context. Drawing on insights from Thompson’s disconnected capitalism thesis, we explore whether financial/competitive pressures facing many private a…
Embodied ageism
More people are extending their working lives through choice or necessity and as a result there is an increasing focus on the experiences of older workers. Access to training and development at work are seen to be one way of maintaining the motivation, productivity and job satisfaction of older workers but at the same time we know that older workers typically get less training at work than younger members of the workforce. This article explores h…
Is part of ageism actually ableism
Ageism is a widely used term that is not (yet) well understood. We propose a redefinition of ageism and to separate it from ableism. We believe this to be important as remedies may depend on whether someone is experiencing ageism or ableism. While focusing the discussion on older workers as a sub-group of older people who (can) experience ageism, we assess the usefulness of critical (feminist) disability studies for ageism research. We hope that …
The Impact of Age Stereotypes and Age Norms on Employees’ Retirement Choices
This article examines how older workers employ internalized age norms and perceptions when thinking about extending their working lives or retirement timing. It draws on semi-structured interviews with employees ( n = 104) and line managers, human resource managers and occupational health specialists ( n = 52) from four organisations in the United Kingdom. Previous research has demonstrated discrimination against older workers but this is a limit…
Flexible Working and Unpaid Overtime in the UK
Recent studies have shown that flexible boundaries between work and family may make employees work harder and longer. Yet most studies were not able to show whether there are differences across different types of flexible working arrangements, and whether this relationship may only hold for certain groups of workers. We examine how three different types of flexible working arrangements, that is schedule control, flexitime, and teleworking, are as…
Internalised Ageism and Self-Exclusion
An important current policy goal in many Western countries is for individuals to extend their working lives. Ageism has been identified as a possible threat to achieving this; furthermore, the ways in which ageism may affect this policy goal may have been underestimated. It has been claimed previously that ageism can be seen as discrimination against one’s future self and that a lifetime of internalising age stereotypes makes older people themsel…
Women’s employment patterns after childbirth and the perceived access to and use of flexitime and teleworking
This article sets out to investigate how flexitime and teleworking can help women maintain their careers after childbirth. Despite the increased number of women in the labour market in the UK, many significantly reduce their working hours or leave the labour market altogether after childbirth. Based on border and boundary management theories, we expect flexitime and teleworking can help mothers stay employed and maintain their working hours. We e…
Longitudinal associations of experiences of adversity and socioeconomic disadvantage during childhood with labour force participation and exit in later adulthood
Gender Roles and Employment Pathways of Older Women and Men in England
In the context of population aging, the U.K. government is encouraging people to work longer and delay retirement, and it is claimed that many people now make "gradual" transitions from full-time to part-time work to retirement. Part-time employment in older age may, however, be largely due to women working part-time before older age, as per a U.K. "modified male breadwinner" model. This article therefore separately examines the extent to which m…
Pathways of Paid Work, Care Provision, and Volunteering in Later Careers
It is well established that what happens to older people in one domain (like paid work) is likely to be related to what happens in another domain (like family caring or voluntary work). There is, however, limited research on the interplay between multiple activity domains in later careers. Research tends to focus on one domain (such as employment), and bring in aspects from other domains (such as volunteering) to explain outcomes. This article in…
Is Banning Significance Testing the Best Way to Improve Applied Social Science Research? - Questions on
Significance testing is widely used in social science research. It has long been criticised on statistical grounds and problems in the research practice. This paper is an applied researchers' response to Gorard's (2016) 'Damaging real lives through obstinacy: re-emphasising why significance testing is wrong' in Sociological Research Online 21(1). He participates in this debate concluding from the issues raised that the use and teaching of signifi…
How Friendship Network Characteristics Influence Subjective Well-Being
Women’s employment patterns after childbirth and the perceived access to and use of flexitime and teleworking
This article sets out to investigate how flexitime and teleworking can help women maintain their careers after childbirth. Despite the increased number of women in the labour market in the UK, many significantly reduce their working hours or leave the labour market altogether after childbirth. Based on border and boundary management theories, we expect flexitime and teleworking can help mothers stay employed and maintain their working hours. We e…
Flexible Working and Unpaid Overtime in the UK
Recent studies have shown that flexible boundaries between work and family may make employees work harder and longer. Yet most studies were not able to show whether there are differences across different types of flexible working arrangements, and whether this relationship may only hold for certain groups of workers. We examine how three different types of flexible working arrangements, that is schedule control, flexitime, and teleworking, are as…
How Friendship Network Characteristics Influence Subjective Well-Being
Gender Roles and Employment Pathways of Older Women and Men in England
In the context of population aging, the U.K. government is encouraging people to work longer and delay retirement, and it is claimed that many people now make "gradual" transitions from full-time to part-time work to retirement. Part-time employment in older age may, however, be largely due to women working part-time before older age, as per a U.K. "modified male breadwinner" model. This article therefore separately examines the extent to which m…
Is part of ageism actually ableism
Ageism is a widely used term that is not (yet) well understood. We propose a redefinition of ageism and to separate it from ableism. We believe this to be important as remedies may depend on whether someone is experiencing ageism or ableism. While focusing the discussion on older workers as a sub-group of older people who (can) experience ageism, we assess the usefulness of critical (feminist) disability studies for ageism research. We hope that …
Longitudinal associations of experiences of adversity and socioeconomic disadvantage during childhood with labour force participation and exit in later adulthood
Internalised Ageism and Self-Exclusion
An important current policy goal in many Western countries is for individuals to extend their working lives. Ageism has been identified as a possible threat to achieving this; furthermore, the ways in which ageism may affect this policy goal may have been underestimated. It has been claimed previously that ageism can be seen as discrimination against one’s future self and that a lifetime of internalising age stereotypes makes older people themsel…
Pathways of Paid Work, Care Provision, and Volunteering in Later Careers
It is well established that what happens to older people in one domain (like paid work) is likely to be related to what happens in another domain (like family caring or voluntary work). There is, however, limited research on the interplay between multiple activity domains in later careers. Research tends to focus on one domain (such as employment), and bring in aspects from other domains (such as volunteering) to explain outcomes. This article in…
Embodied ageism
More people are extending their working lives through choice or necessity and as a result there is an increasing focus on the experiences of older workers. Access to training and development at work are seen to be one way of maintaining the motivation, productivity and job satisfaction of older workers but at the same time we know that older workers typically get less training at work than younger members of the workforce. This article explores h…
Parental care among only children in China
Being the only child in the family means concentrated responsibilities for parental care. This study presents findings from 23 semi-structured interviews with Chinese only children, exploring their care motivation, provision, and experiences within the context of Chinese filial piety and social change. We developed a typology by examining how Chinese only children responded to their parents' care needs and why they provided care (or chose not to)…
The Impact of Age Stereotypes and Age Norms on Employees’ Retirement Choices
This article examines how older workers employ internalized age norms and perceptions when thinking about extending their working lives or retirement timing. It draws on semi-structured interviews with employees ( n = 104) and line managers, human resource managers and occupational health specialists ( n = 52) from four organisations in the United Kingdom. Previous research has demonstrated discrimination against older workers but this is a limit…
How Friendship Network Characteristics Influence Subjective Well-Being
Pathways of Paid Work, Care Provision, and Volunteering in Later Careers
It is well established that what happens to older people in one domain (like paid work) is likely to be related to what happens in another domain (like family caring or voluntary work). There is, however, limited research on the interplay between multiple activity domains in later careers. Research tends to focus on one domain (such as employment), and bring in aspects from other domains (such as volunteering) to explain outcomes. This article in…
Is Banning Significance Testing the Best Way to Improve Applied Social Science Research? - Questions on
Significance testing is widely used in social science research. It has long been criticised on statistical grounds and problems in the research practice. This paper is an applied researchers' response to Gorard's (2016) 'Damaging real lives through obstinacy: re-emphasising why significance testing is wrong' in Sociological Research Online 21(1). He participates in this debate concluding from the issues raised that the use and teaching of signifi…
Longitudinal associations of experiences of adversity and socioeconomic disadvantage during childhood with labour force participation and exit in later adulthood
Gender Roles and Employment Pathways of Older Women and Men in England
In the context of population aging, the U.K. government is encouraging people to work longer and delay retirement, and it is claimed that many people now make "gradual" transitions from full-time to part-time work to retirement. Part-time employment in older age may, however, be largely due to women working part-time before older age, as per a U.K. "modified male breadwinner" model. This article therefore separately examines the extent to which m…
Women’s employment patterns after childbirth and the perceived access to and use of flexitime and teleworking
This article sets out to investigate how flexitime and teleworking can help women maintain their careers after childbirth. Despite the increased number of women in the labour market in the UK, many significantly reduce their working hours or leave the labour market altogether after childbirth. Based on border and boundary management theories, we expect flexitime and teleworking can help mothers stay employed and maintain their working hours. We e…
Internalised Ageism and Self-Exclusion
An important current policy goal in many Western countries is for individuals to extend their working lives. Ageism has been identified as a possible threat to achieving this; furthermore, the ways in which ageism may affect this policy goal may have been underestimated. It has been claimed previously that ageism can be seen as discrimination against one’s future self and that a lifetime of internalising age stereotypes makes older people themsel…
Flexible Working and Unpaid Overtime in the UK
Recent studies have shown that flexible boundaries between work and family may make employees work harder and longer. Yet most studies were not able to show whether there are differences across different types of flexible working arrangements, and whether this relationship may only hold for certain groups of workers. We examine how three different types of flexible working arrangements, that is schedule control, flexitime, and teleworking, are as…
The Impact of Age Stereotypes and Age Norms on Employees’ Retirement Choices
This article examines how older workers employ internalized age norms and perceptions when thinking about extending their working lives or retirement timing. It draws on semi-structured interviews with employees ( n = 104) and line managers, human resource managers and occupational health specialists ( n = 52) from four organisations in the United Kingdom. Previous research has demonstrated discrimination against older workers but this is a limit…
Embodied ageism
More people are extending their working lives through choice or necessity and as a result there is an increasing focus on the experiences of older workers. Access to training and development at work are seen to be one way of maintaining the motivation, productivity and job satisfaction of older workers but at the same time we know that older workers typically get less training at work than younger members of the workforce. This article explores h…
Is part of ageism actually ableism
Ageism is a widely used term that is not (yet) well understood. We propose a redefinition of ageism and to separate it from ableism. We believe this to be important as remedies may depend on whether someone is experiencing ageism or ableism. While focusing the discussion on older workers as a sub-group of older people who (can) experience ageism, we assess the usefulness of critical (feminist) disability studies for ageism research. We hope that …
Adapting to an older workforce
The UK government has called for employers to make work adaptations in response to changes in health individuals may experience as they age. However, government assumptions place too much emphasis on the voluntary actions of employers and managers, without placing the management of health in a wider context. Drawing on insights from Thompson’s disconnected capitalism thesis, we explore whether financial/competitive pressures facing many private a…
The Translation of Intergenerational Care Potential Into Care Receipt of Older Parents
This study prospectively examined the extent to which intergenerational care potential translated into parent’s care receipt. Data were from 510 parents (aged 70–97 years at baseline) who reported on their 1496 adult children in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam, with seven observations over ten years. Joint care potential considered the number of children and their care potential types. Children with high care potential lived nearby, had fr…
Cliff-edge or atypical retirement? Exploring retirement trajectories of post-war baby boomers in The Netherlands
This study explores retirement processes. State pension age is gradually increasing in many countries, including the Netherlands. The traditional retirement pathway where individuals have a cliff-edge transition from a full-time job with a permanent contract to full retirement appears to be applicable to an ever-smaller group of employees. Hence, more recently, ‘retirement’ is viewed not as a single transition out of the labour force but rather a…
Parental care among only children in China
Being the only child in the family means concentrated responsibilities for parental care. This study presents findings from 23 semi-structured interviews with Chinese only children, exploring their care motivation, provision, and experiences within the context of Chinese filial piety and social change. We developed a typology by examining how Chinese only children responded to their parents' care needs and why they provided care (or chose not to)…
Psychology (12 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gerontology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)