Hans-Peter Y Qvist
Biographic Data
| ID | 162471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans-Peter Y Qvist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans-Peter Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Qvist |
| SIGNATURE | QVIST H Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6231-3123 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Locking Down Civil Society
This paper examines patterns of volunteering during COVID-19 in different areas of civil society and demographic groups in Denmark. The aim is to understand how differences in the areas of civil society's political resources and organizational settings, and different barriers to volunteering of demographic groups, relate to variation in the levels of volunteering in periods of the pandemic with different lockdown measures. Using two cross-section…
Interethnic Union Formation Among 1.5- and Second-Generation Immigrants
We examine 1.5- and second-generation immigrants’ union formation patterns in Denmark and how they relate to the cultural proximity between their countries of origin and Denmark as indicated by religion, values, and language. Drawing on administrative register data on 71,122 1.5- and second-generation immigrants from 120 different countries of origin, we use multilevel discrete-time event history analysis to examine the nexus between cultural pro…
Uncovering social assimilation disparities
This study examines how much immigrants from different country of origin groups assimilate to native-level volunteering in organizations in Denmark. We employ multilevel linear probability models, analyzing a dataset that combines repeated cross-sectional survey data with administrative register information. The dataset encompasses 15,771 respondents, of which 1,918 are immigrants from 127 different countries. Unlike recent European comparative r…
Lagging behind by doing good
This study contributes new insights into whether volunteering improves the employment prospects of jobless individuals by examining its relationship with the speed at which they secure new jobs- an outcome that has received limited attention in previous research. Our comprehensive data enables us to investigate this by constructing an event history dataset that merges information from the Danish Volunteer Survey with administrative register data.…
Does volunteering reduce antidepressant use among older adults? Longitudinal register-based evidence from Denmark
Antidepressant use among older adults has surged in recent years. This is concerning since antidepressants have serious side effects and limited efficacy when used as a stand-alone treatment. Against this background, it has been claimed that volunteering may reduce antidepressant use, by preventing depressive symptoms and offering alternative ways to manage them. To test this claim, we merge the Danish Longitudinal Study of Aging with register da…
Balancing acts of kindness
Although time is a finite resource, much sociological research suggests a positive association between engagement in informal helping activities and formal volunteering. However, it remains unclear whether this relationship is causal and, if so, in which direction the causality runs. To address these issues, I draw on two-wave panel data from Denmark. Using a cross-lagged panel model, I find no evidence that formal volunteering hours affect infor…
Anmeldelser
Anmeldelser af følgende: Pierre Charbonnier: Affluence and freedom: An environmental history of political ideas. Anmeldt af Anders Blok. Frank van Tubergen: Introduction to Sociology. Anmeldt af Hans-Peter Y. Qvist
Labour market disadvantage or poor health upon arrival? An examination of the native-immigrant gap in early retirement on a disability pension
Non-Western immigrants in Scandinavia have a higher risk of early retirement on a disability pension than natives, but the reasons are unclear. One theory is that increased demands for standardization, efficiency and productivity in advanced capitalist labour markets, such as the Scandinavian market, cause expulsion of the weakest and least qualified individuals from the labour market, including a disproportionate share of non-Western immigrants.…
Intersektionalitet og kvantitative metoder
En intersektionel tilgang til sociologisk analyse er baseret på en idé om, at forskellige undertrykkelsessystemer og diskriminationsformer, der knytter sig til forskellige sociale kategorier såsom køn, seksualitet, religion, race/etnicitet og social klasse/socioøkonomisk status, gensidigt konstituerer og omformer hinandens betydning på komplekse måder. Intersektionalitetsbegrebet giver således ikke umiddelbart forrang til bestemte sociologiske me…
Joining the Choir
In the 1960s people from Africa made up a small proportion of the migrant population in United States. However, since the mid 1960s the United States have opened the doors for larger numbers of migrants from the Global South including people from Africa. As a result, the African-born population in the US today comprises close to 2 million people according to estimates from the Pew Research Center (see Manglos-Weber 2018, 2). Against this backdrop…
Secular and religious volunteering among immigrants and natives in Denmark
During the last 20-30 years Western societies have witnessed large scale migration from the Global South. This has given rise to important challenges in securing the social, civic and political integration of non-Western immigrants into Western societies. Previous research has suggested that participation in volunteering in civil society can serve as a 'stepping stone' towards integration for immigrants. Whilst the previous studies have shown mar…
The Consequences of Weakening Organizational Attachment for Volunteering in Denmark, 2004-2012
Previous research from the United States suggests that volunteers’ time contributions have declined during a period when participation rates have risen. Scholars have offered various possible explanations for this trend, including generational differences, socio-economic changes, and family life changes. In Europe, previous research has shown that participation rates have risen in most countries, but little work has addressed trends in volunteers…
The Individual Economic Returns to Volunteering in Work Life
This article examines the individual economic returns to volunteering during different stages of working life. The article uses a unique panel data set created by combining rich survey data from Denmark with information on wages from administrative registers covering the period from 2004 to 2012. Applying a two-way fixed-effects regression model that controls for both period-specific and individual-specific effects, the article finds that for lab…
Deltagelse i frivilligt arbejde og tidsforbrug på frivilligt arbejde
Ifølge ressourceteorien om frivilligt arbejde er personer med mange personlige, sociale og kulturelle ressourcer mere tilbøjelige til at deltage i frivilligt arbejde og bruger mere tid på det. I denne artikel viser jeg imidlertid ved hjælp af en to-dele-model, som mindre hyppigt anvendes i den sociologiske frivillighedsforskning sammenlignet med Tobit-modellen, at to af de mest centrale ressource-indikatorer, uddannelse og hyppig kontakt med medl…
Mainstreaming Effects on Volunteering? The Case of Denmark
The aim of this article is to investigate whether and to what extent changes in the structural preconditions for volunteering have had an effect on the relative importance of ‘classic predictors’ of volunteering within two areas: (1) socio-economic and status variables that function as resources for civic engagement and (2) value orientations that guide volunteering. Arguably, upward changes in the level of human capital, such as education, or ch…
Secular and religious volunteering among immigrants and natives in Denmark
During the last 20-30 years Western societies have witnessed large scale migration from the Global South. This has given rise to important challenges in securing the social, civic and political integration of non-Western immigrants into Western societies. Previous research has suggested that participation in volunteering in civil society can serve as a 'stepping stone' towards integration for immigrants. Whilst the previous studies have shown mar…
Interethnic Union Formation Among 1.5- and Second-Generation Immigrants
We examine 1.5- and second-generation immigrants’ union formation patterns in Denmark and how they relate to the cultural proximity between their countries of origin and Denmark as indicated by religion, values, and language. Drawing on administrative register data on 71,122 1.5- and second-generation immigrants from 120 different countries of origin, we use multilevel discrete-time event history analysis to examine the nexus between cultural pro…
The Individual Economic Returns to Volunteering in Work Life
This article examines the individual economic returns to volunteering during different stages of working life. The article uses a unique panel data set created by combining rich survey data from Denmark with information on wages from administrative registers covering the period from 2004 to 2012. Applying a two-way fixed-effects regression model that controls for both period-specific and individual-specific effects, the article finds that for lab…
Balancing acts of kindness
Although time is a finite resource, much sociological research suggests a positive association between engagement in informal helping activities and formal volunteering. However, it remains unclear whether this relationship is causal and, if so, in which direction the causality runs. To address these issues, I draw on two-wave panel data from Denmark. Using a cross-lagged panel model, I find no evidence that formal volunteering hours affect infor…
Lagging behind by doing good
This study contributes new insights into whether volunteering improves the employment prospects of jobless individuals by examining its relationship with the speed at which they secure new jobs- an outcome that has received limited attention in previous research. Our comprehensive data enables us to investigate this by constructing an event history dataset that merges information from the Danish Volunteer Survey with administrative register data.…
Labour market disadvantage or poor health upon arrival? An examination of the native-immigrant gap in early retirement on a disability pension
Non-Western immigrants in Scandinavia have a higher risk of early retirement on a disability pension than natives, but the reasons are unclear. One theory is that increased demands for standardization, efficiency and productivity in advanced capitalist labour markets, such as the Scandinavian market, cause expulsion of the weakest and least qualified individuals from the labour market, including a disproportionate share of non-Western immigrants.…
The Consequences of Weakening Organizational Attachment for Volunteering in Denmark, 2004-2012
Previous research from the United States suggests that volunteers’ time contributions have declined during a period when participation rates have risen. Scholars have offered various possible explanations for this trend, including generational differences, socio-economic changes, and family life changes. In Europe, previous research has shown that participation rates have risen in most countries, but little work has addressed trends in volunteers…
Mainstreaming Effects on Volunteering? The Case of Denmark
The aim of this article is to investigate whether and to what extent changes in the structural preconditions for volunteering have had an effect on the relative importance of ‘classic predictors’ of volunteering within two areas: (1) socio-economic and status variables that function as resources for civic engagement and (2) value orientations that guide volunteering. Arguably, upward changes in the level of human capital, such as education, or ch…
Deltagelse i frivilligt arbejde og tidsforbrug på frivilligt arbejde
Ifølge ressourceteorien om frivilligt arbejde er personer med mange personlige, sociale og kulturelle ressourcer mere tilbøjelige til at deltage i frivilligt arbejde og bruger mere tid på det. I denne artikel viser jeg imidlertid ved hjælp af en to-dele-model, som mindre hyppigt anvendes i den sociologiske frivillighedsforskning sammenlignet med Tobit-modellen, at to af de mest centrale ressource-indikatorer, uddannelse og hyppig kontakt med medl…
Secular and religious volunteering among immigrants and natives in Denmark
During the last 20-30 years Western societies have witnessed large scale migration from the Global South. This has given rise to important challenges in securing the social, civic and political integration of non-Western immigrants into Western societies. Previous research has suggested that participation in volunteering in civil society can serve as a 'stepping stone' towards integration for immigrants. Whilst the previous studies have shown mar…
The Consequences of Weakening Organizational Attachment for Volunteering in Denmark, 2004-2012
Previous research from the United States suggests that volunteers’ time contributions have declined during a period when participation rates have risen. Scholars have offered various possible explanations for this trend, including generational differences, socio-economic changes, and family life changes. In Europe, previous research has shown that participation rates have risen in most countries, but little work has addressed trends in volunteers…
The Individual Economic Returns to Volunteering in Work Life
This article examines the individual economic returns to volunteering during different stages of working life. The article uses a unique panel data set created by combining rich survey data from Denmark with information on wages from administrative registers covering the period from 2004 to 2012. Applying a two-way fixed-effects regression model that controls for both period-specific and individual-specific effects, the article finds that for lab…
Intersektionalitet og kvantitative metoder
En intersektionel tilgang til sociologisk analyse er baseret på en idé om, at forskellige undertrykkelsessystemer og diskriminationsformer, der knytter sig til forskellige sociale kategorier såsom køn, seksualitet, religion, race/etnicitet og social klasse/socioøkonomisk status, gensidigt konstituerer og omformer hinandens betydning på komplekse måder. Intersektionalitetsbegrebet giver således ikke umiddelbart forrang til bestemte sociologiske me…
Joining the Choir
In the 1960s people from Africa made up a small proportion of the migrant population in United States. However, since the mid 1960s the United States have opened the doors for larger numbers of migrants from the Global South including people from Africa. As a result, the African-born population in the US today comprises close to 2 million people according to estimates from the Pew Research Center (see Manglos-Weber 2018, 2). Against this backdrop…
Anmeldelser
Anmeldelser af følgende: Pierre Charbonnier: Affluence and freedom: An environmental history of political ideas. Anmeldt af Anders Blok. Frank van Tubergen: Introduction to Sociology. Anmeldt af Hans-Peter Y. Qvist
Labour market disadvantage or poor health upon arrival? An examination of the native-immigrant gap in early retirement on a disability pension
Non-Western immigrants in Scandinavia have a higher risk of early retirement on a disability pension than natives, but the reasons are unclear. One theory is that increased demands for standardization, efficiency and productivity in advanced capitalist labour markets, such as the Scandinavian market, cause expulsion of the weakest and least qualified individuals from the labour market, including a disproportionate share of non-Western immigrants.…
Balancing acts of kindness
Although time is a finite resource, much sociological research suggests a positive association between engagement in informal helping activities and formal volunteering. However, it remains unclear whether this relationship is causal and, if so, in which direction the causality runs. To address these issues, I draw on two-wave panel data from Denmark. Using a cross-lagged panel model, I find no evidence that formal volunteering hours affect infor…
Locking Down Civil Society
This paper examines patterns of volunteering during COVID-19 in different areas of civil society and demographic groups in Denmark. The aim is to understand how differences in the areas of civil society's political resources and organizational settings, and different barriers to volunteering of demographic groups, relate to variation in the levels of volunteering in periods of the pandemic with different lockdown measures. Using two cross-section…
Interethnic Union Formation Among 1.5- and Second-Generation Immigrants
We examine 1.5- and second-generation immigrants’ union formation patterns in Denmark and how they relate to the cultural proximity between their countries of origin and Denmark as indicated by religion, values, and language. Drawing on administrative register data on 71,122 1.5- and second-generation immigrants from 120 different countries of origin, we use multilevel discrete-time event history analysis to examine the nexus between cultural pro…
Uncovering social assimilation disparities
This study examines how much immigrants from different country of origin groups assimilate to native-level volunteering in organizations in Denmark. We employ multilevel linear probability models, analyzing a dataset that combines repeated cross-sectional survey data with administrative register information. The dataset encompasses 15,771 respondents, of which 1,918 are immigrants from 127 different countries. Unlike recent European comparative r…
Lagging behind by doing good
This study contributes new insights into whether volunteering improves the employment prospects of jobless individuals by examining its relationship with the speed at which they secure new jobs- an outcome that has received limited attention in previous research. Our comprehensive data enables us to investigate this by constructing an event history dataset that merges information from the Danish Volunteer Survey with administrative register data.…
Does volunteering reduce antidepressant use among older adults? Longitudinal register-based evidence from Denmark
Antidepressant use among older adults has surged in recent years. This is concerning since antidepressants have serious side effects and limited efficacy when used as a stand-alone treatment. Against this background, it has been claimed that volunteering may reduce antidepressant use, by preventing depressive symptoms and offering alternative ways to manage them. To test this claim, we merge the Danish Longitudinal Study of Aging with register da…
Sociology (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Capital and Networks (8 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works)