M Visser
Biographic Data
| ID | 17427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Visser |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Visser |
| SIGNATURE | VISSER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1410-966X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Rechts-populistisch stemmen: Logische keuze of blind protest
Contains fulltext : 319000.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Life Courses and Retirement Adjustment Among Men and Women in the Netherlands
This study examines life courses and retirement adjustment in the Netherlands. Gender-split latent class analyses identify four distinct trajectories among men and women, covering life events in work, family, health, care, and volunteering. The largest trajectories indicate traditional male and female life courses. Compared to those with traditional male trajectories, men with lifelong volunteering adjust better to retirement, financially, social…
What drives people to work in retirement? The role of work–family trajectories, finances, health, and welfare state generosity in bridge employment across Europe
Bridge employment—retirees performing paid work before permanently retiring—is becoming increasingly common. However, it remains unclear how bridge employment is shaped by people’s work–family trajectories across different welfare states. Using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and estimating 3-level linear probability models, results show that—compared to continuously full-time employed persons in nuclear families—those who r…
Who works while sick and who enjoys the golden years? Changing disparities in time spent in health and work after age 50 in the United States
While full retirement age in the United States is increasing, longevity improvements have stagnated, Americans with low educational attainment have not experienced delayed health impairments, and there remain substantial racial disparities in morbidity and mortality. Using the Health and Retirement Study, we ran discrete-time multistate models to examine how these trends together shape educational and racial/ethnic differences in expected time sp…
Wage Premium or Wage Penalty? Gendered Long-term Wage Development of Family Caregivers
This study theoretically and empirically assesses the gendered relationship between family caregiving (excluding regular childcare) and wage development in the Netherlands applying conflict theory, which predicts a wage penalty due to difficulties in combining paid work and care, and enrichment theory, which expects a wage premium because of acquired skills and recognition. Growth curve modelling was used to analyse hourly wages from 19 years of …
Trajectories of job resources and the timing of retirement
Job resources benefit and motivate workers and, therefore, facilitate longer working lives. Yet, little is known about how job resources develop over time and how, in turn, trajectories of job resources are associated with retirement timing. Accordingly, this study examines job resource trajectories of older workers and to what extent these trajectories are related to when people retire. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement…
Informal care trajectories over the lifecourse in the Netherlands
This study sets out to identify and describe informal care trajectories over the lifecourse in the Netherlands, and evaluate theoretical ideas on informal care trajectories. We conduct latent profile analysis on a sample of 949 respondents who retrospectively reported on all informal care episodes they had ever experienced, based on the number of episodes, age at first caring episode, duration and overlap. We identified four informal care traject…
Work-family trajectories across Europe: Differences between social groups and welfare regimes
Our findings highlight the socially stratified nature of earlier-life work-family trajectories in Europe. Potential implications for inequalities in later life are discussed
Strategies of informal caregivers to adapt paid work
Informal caregiving, meaning taking health-related care of an older and/or disabled person in the personal network, often has consequences for paid work. Classically, scholars focus on two strategies of informal caregivers to adapt employment: stopping to work and reducing working hours. Two other plausible, but neglected, strategies may similarly have career consequences, namely changing jobs and becoming self-employed. First, we empirically ass…
Helping helpers? The role of monetary transfers in combining unpaid care and paid work
Applying fixed-effects models using Waves 2 to 13 (2007–19) of the German Labour Market and Social Security panel study, we examine how unpaid caring changes labour supply and if monthly monetary transfers from the care recipient to the carer motivate a reduction in labour supply. We find that for both women and men, starting high-intensity caring increased the likelihood of becoming non-employed. Women were already likely to reduce working hours…
Social class, economic and political grievances and radical left voting: The role of macroeconomic performance
The classic gap between lower and higher social classes in their likelihood to vote for radical left parties (RLPs) persists to this day. Prior studies showed that economic and political grievances predict support for the radical left, but they largely neglected to address whether the working class is more likely to vote for RLPs because they are economically and politically dissatisfied. This study, therefore, examines the explanatory role of ec…
The Use of HR Policies and Job Satisfaction of Older Workers
Against the backdrop of aging populations and policies to extend working lives, this study advances prior research by examining how job satisfaction of older workers is associated with not only own, but also coworkers’ usage of 3 human resource (HR) policies: phasing out (i.e., lighter workload, additional leave, and semi-retirement), demotion, and training. Exploiting unique, linked organization-department-employee data from the European Sustain…
Stratification: Partner Effects
Social stratification research on partner effects mainly directs its attention to the impact that partners (married or in a consensual relationship) have on each other's labor market career in terms of labor force activity, work hours, occupational status, and income. The division of paid and unpaid labor between partners is a major cause of economic inequality between couples and a more important one than educational homogamy. This entry discuss…
Work Values and Political Participation: A Cross-National Analysis
This study examines to what extent extrinsic and intrinsic work values are associated with nonelectoral political participation, such as signing a petition and taking part in a public demonstration. We examine whether individualism and economic factors at the country level moderate the relation between work values and political participation. Using data from two rounds of the European Social Survey covering thirty-one countries ( N = 55,927), res…
The crowding in hypothesis revisited: New insights into the impact of social protection expenditure on informal social capital
This study revisits the crowding in hypothesis and contributes to the literature in two ways. First, in addition to total social spending, we examine whether different types of social spending increase social capital among their target groups. Second, we distinguish within- from between-country effects of social spending. Data from the European Social Survey are analysed with logistic multilevel regression models. We analyse two indicators of inf…
The direct effect of social origin on men’s occupational attainment over the early life course: An Italian–Dutch comparison
Labor Market Vulnerability of Older Workers in the Netherlands and its Impact on Downward Mobility and Reduction of Working Hours
Based on well-established and widely-used labor market theories, we argue that workers aged 50 years and over who are more vulnerable in the Dutch labor market are more likely to experience downward occupational mobility and a reduction of working time in their late career. To test this general hypothesis, we analyze retrospective employment history data from 4 waves (1998, 2000, 2003, and 2009) of the Family Survey Dutch Population (FSDP) using …
Inequality among Older Workers in the Netherlands: A Life Course and Social Stratification Perspective on Early Retirement
This study integrates a life course and social stratification perspective to examine early retirement in the Netherlands. Event history analysis of retrospective life course data from four rounds of the Family Survey Dutch Population reveals that employment career characteristics are strongly associated with early retirement. The results also show that educational differences in early labour force withdrawal persist when controlling for work hist…
Financiële spanning en informeel sociaal isolement - De rol van macro-economische omstandigheden en sociale zekerheidsuitgaven in 32 Europese landen in het decennium na de eeuwwisseling
Financial strain and informal social isolation: The role of macro-economic circumstances and social protection expenditure in 32 European countries in the decade after the turn of the century .This study examines to what extent financial strain, that is, difficulties to cope on one’s income, is related to informal social isolation, that is, lacking social contacts with friend, relatives and colleagues. We consider to what extent macro-economic co…
Fear of Crime and Feelings of Unsafety in European Countries: Macro and Micro Explanations in Cross-National Perspective
In this study, we set out to explain fear of crime and feelings of unsafety, using two waves of the European Social Survey (2006 and 2008) covering 25 European countries (N = 77,674). The results of our multilevel analyses showed varying effects of contextual- and individual-level characteristics on our two outcomes. Higher crime levels in countries increase the fear of crime; however, they do not affect feelings of unsafety. Social protection ex…
The Impact of Macro-Economic Circumstances and Social Protection Expenditure on Economic Deprivation in 25 European Countries, 2007–2011
Support for radical left ideologies in E urope
This article examines support for radical left ideologies in 32 E uropean countries. It thus extends the relatively scant empirical research available in this field. The hypotheses tested are derived mainly from group‐interest theory. Data are deployed from the 2002–2010 E uropean Social Surveys ( N = 174,868), supplemented by characteristics at the country level. The results show that, also in the new millennium, unemployed people and those with…
Extreme politieke oriëntaties in Europa - Verklaringen op micro- en macroniveau
In this study, we set out to explain extreme left-wing and extreme right-wing ideologies within and between 30 European countries in a multi-level framework. To test our hypotheses, we use data from the European Social Surveys of 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010 (N = 176.803), enriched with country characteristics. Our results show that lower educated people and manual workers are more likely to support left-wing extremism, because they are of the…
De Tweede Wereldoorlog en statusverwerving
World War II and occupational status attainment.In this study we include personal war experiences in Duncan’s path model of status attainment to answer the following research question: To what extent can personal war experiences explain the occupational status of Dutch people who experienced World War II? We expect that personal war experiences have a detrimental effect on the human capital formation, which in turn leads to a lower educational le…
How to Punish Environmental Pollution? Some Reflections on Various Models of Criminalization of Environmental Harm2
Support for radical left ideologies in E urope
This article examines support for radical left ideologies in 32 E uropean countries. It thus extends the relatively scant empirical research available in this field. The hypotheses tested are derived mainly from group‐interest theory. Data are deployed from the 2002–2010 E uropean Social Surveys ( N = 174,868), supplemented by characteristics at the country level. The results show that, also in the new millennium, unemployed people and those with…
Fear of Crime and Feelings of Unsafety in European Countries: Macro and Micro Explanations in Cross-National Perspective
In this study, we set out to explain fear of crime and feelings of unsafety, using two waves of the European Social Survey (2006 and 2008) covering 25 European countries (N = 77,674). The results of our multilevel analyses showed varying effects of contextual- and individual-level characteristics on our two outcomes. Higher crime levels in countries increase the fear of crime; however, they do not affect feelings of unsafety. Social protection ex…
The direct effect of social origin on men’s occupational attainment over the early life course: An Italian–Dutch comparison
Inequality among Older Workers in the Netherlands: A Life Course and Social Stratification Perspective on Early Retirement
This study integrates a life course and social stratification perspective to examine early retirement in the Netherlands. Event history analysis of retrospective life course data from four rounds of the Family Survey Dutch Population reveals that employment career characteristics are strongly associated with early retirement. The results also show that educational differences in early labour force withdrawal persist when controlling for work hist…
The Impact of Macro-Economic Circumstances and Social Protection Expenditure on Economic Deprivation in 25 European Countries, 2007–2011
The crowding in hypothesis revisited: New insights into the impact of social protection expenditure on informal social capital
This study revisits the crowding in hypothesis and contributes to the literature in two ways. First, in addition to total social spending, we examine whether different types of social spending increase social capital among their target groups. Second, we distinguish within- from between-country effects of social spending. Data from the European Social Survey are analysed with logistic multilevel regression models. We analyse two indicators of inf…
Trajectories of job resources and the timing of retirement
Job resources benefit and motivate workers and, therefore, facilitate longer working lives. Yet, little is known about how job resources develop over time and how, in turn, trajectories of job resources are associated with retirement timing. Accordingly, this study examines job resource trajectories of older workers and to what extent these trajectories are related to when people retire. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement…
Social class, economic and political grievances and radical left voting: The role of macroeconomic performance
The classic gap between lower and higher social classes in their likelihood to vote for radical left parties (RLPs) persists to this day. Prior studies showed that economic and political grievances predict support for the radical left, but they largely neglected to address whether the working class is more likely to vote for RLPs because they are economically and politically dissatisfied. This study, therefore, examines the explanatory role of ec…
The Use of HR Policies and Job Satisfaction of Older Workers
Against the backdrop of aging populations and policies to extend working lives, this study advances prior research by examining how job satisfaction of older workers is associated with not only own, but also coworkers’ usage of 3 human resource (HR) policies: phasing out (i.e., lighter workload, additional leave, and semi-retirement), demotion, and training. Exploiting unique, linked organization-department-employee data from the European Sustain…
Labor Market Vulnerability of Older Workers in the Netherlands and its Impact on Downward Mobility and Reduction of Working Hours
Based on well-established and widely-used labor market theories, we argue that workers aged 50 years and over who are more vulnerable in the Dutch labor market are more likely to experience downward occupational mobility and a reduction of working time in their late career. To test this general hypothesis, we analyze retrospective employment history data from 4 waves (1998, 2000, 2003, and 2009) of the Family Survey Dutch Population (FSDP) using …
Helping helpers? The role of monetary transfers in combining unpaid care and paid work
Applying fixed-effects models using Waves 2 to 13 (2007–19) of the German Labour Market and Social Security panel study, we examine how unpaid caring changes labour supply and if monthly monetary transfers from the care recipient to the carer motivate a reduction in labour supply. We find that for both women and men, starting high-intensity caring increased the likelihood of becoming non-employed. Women were already likely to reduce working hours…
What drives people to work in retirement? The role of work–family trajectories, finances, health, and welfare state generosity in bridge employment across Europe
Bridge employment—retirees performing paid work before permanently retiring—is becoming increasingly common. However, it remains unclear how bridge employment is shaped by people’s work–family trajectories across different welfare states. Using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and estimating 3-level linear probability models, results show that—compared to continuously full-time employed persons in nuclear families—those who r…
Wage Premium or Wage Penalty? Gendered Long-term Wage Development of Family Caregivers
This study theoretically and empirically assesses the gendered relationship between family caregiving (excluding regular childcare) and wage development in the Netherlands applying conflict theory, which predicts a wage penalty due to difficulties in combining paid work and care, and enrichment theory, which expects a wage premium because of acquired skills and recognition. Growth curve modelling was used to analyse hourly wages from 19 years of …
Informal care trajectories over the lifecourse in the Netherlands
This study sets out to identify and describe informal care trajectories over the lifecourse in the Netherlands, and evaluate theoretical ideas on informal care trajectories. We conduct latent profile analysis on a sample of 949 respondents who retrospectively reported on all informal care episodes they had ever experienced, based on the number of episodes, age at first caring episode, duration and overlap. We identified four informal care traject…
Strategies of informal caregivers to adapt paid work
Informal caregiving, meaning taking health-related care of an older and/or disabled person in the personal network, often has consequences for paid work. Classically, scholars focus on two strategies of informal caregivers to adapt employment: stopping to work and reducing working hours. Two other plausible, but neglected, strategies may similarly have career consequences, namely changing jobs and becoming self-employed. First, we empirically ass…
Work Values and Political Participation: A Cross-National Analysis
This study examines to what extent extrinsic and intrinsic work values are associated with nonelectoral political participation, such as signing a petition and taking part in a public demonstration. We examine whether individualism and economic factors at the country level moderate the relation between work values and political participation. Using data from two rounds of the European Social Survey covering thirty-one countries ( N = 55,927), res…
How to Punish Environmental Pollution? Some Reflections on Various Models of Criminalization of Environmental Harm2
How to Punish Environmental Pollution? Some Reflections on Various Models of Criminalization of Environmental Harm2
De Tweede Wereldoorlog en statusverwerving
World War II and occupational status attainment.In this study we include personal war experiences in Duncan’s path model of status attainment to answer the following research question: To what extent can personal war experiences explain the occupational status of Dutch people who experienced World War II? We expect that personal war experiences have a detrimental effect on the human capital formation, which in turn leads to a lower educational le…
Extreme politieke oriëntaties in Europa - Verklaringen op micro- en macroniveau
In this study, we set out to explain extreme left-wing and extreme right-wing ideologies within and between 30 European countries in a multi-level framework. To test our hypotheses, we use data from the European Social Surveys of 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010 (N = 176.803), enriched with country characteristics. Our results show that lower educated people and manual workers are more likely to support left-wing extremism, because they are of the…
Financiële spanning en informeel sociaal isolement - De rol van macro-economische omstandigheden en sociale zekerheidsuitgaven in 32 Europese landen in het decennium na de eeuwwisseling
Financial strain and informal social isolation: The role of macro-economic circumstances and social protection expenditure in 32 European countries in the decade after the turn of the century .This study examines to what extent financial strain, that is, difficulties to cope on one’s income, is related to informal social isolation, that is, lacking social contacts with friend, relatives and colleagues. We consider to what extent macro-economic co…
Fear of Crime and Feelings of Unsafety in European Countries: Macro and Micro Explanations in Cross-National Perspective
In this study, we set out to explain fear of crime and feelings of unsafety, using two waves of the European Social Survey (2006 and 2008) covering 25 European countries (N = 77,674). The results of our multilevel analyses showed varying effects of contextual- and individual-level characteristics on our two outcomes. Higher crime levels in countries increase the fear of crime; however, they do not affect feelings of unsafety. Social protection ex…
The Impact of Macro-Economic Circumstances and Social Protection Expenditure on Economic Deprivation in 25 European Countries, 2007–2011
Support for radical left ideologies in E urope
This article examines support for radical left ideologies in 32 E uropean countries. It thus extends the relatively scant empirical research available in this field. The hypotheses tested are derived mainly from group‐interest theory. Data are deployed from the 2002–2010 E uropean Social Surveys ( N = 174,868), supplemented by characteristics at the country level. The results show that, also in the new millennium, unemployed people and those with…
Inequality among Older Workers in the Netherlands: A Life Course and Social Stratification Perspective on Early Retirement
This study integrates a life course and social stratification perspective to examine early retirement in the Netherlands. Event history analysis of retrospective life course data from four rounds of the Family Survey Dutch Population reveals that employment career characteristics are strongly associated with early retirement. The results also show that educational differences in early labour force withdrawal persist when controlling for work hist…
Labor Market Vulnerability of Older Workers in the Netherlands and its Impact on Downward Mobility and Reduction of Working Hours
Based on well-established and widely-used labor market theories, we argue that workers aged 50 years and over who are more vulnerable in the Dutch labor market are more likely to experience downward occupational mobility and a reduction of working time in their late career. To test this general hypothesis, we analyze retrospective employment history data from 4 waves (1998, 2000, 2003, and 2009) of the Family Survey Dutch Population (FSDP) using …
The crowding in hypothesis revisited: New insights into the impact of social protection expenditure on informal social capital
This study revisits the crowding in hypothesis and contributes to the literature in two ways. First, in addition to total social spending, we examine whether different types of social spending increase social capital among their target groups. Second, we distinguish within- from between-country effects of social spending. Data from the European Social Survey are analysed with logistic multilevel regression models. We analyse two indicators of inf…
The direct effect of social origin on men’s occupational attainment over the early life course: An Italian–Dutch comparison
Stratification: Partner Effects
Social stratification research on partner effects mainly directs its attention to the impact that partners (married or in a consensual relationship) have on each other's labor market career in terms of labor force activity, work hours, occupational status, and income. The division of paid and unpaid labor between partners is a major cause of economic inequality between couples and a more important one than educational homogamy. This entry discuss…
Work Values and Political Participation: A Cross-National Analysis
This study examines to what extent extrinsic and intrinsic work values are associated with nonelectoral political participation, such as signing a petition and taking part in a public demonstration. We examine whether individualism and economic factors at the country level moderate the relation between work values and political participation. Using data from two rounds of the European Social Survey covering thirty-one countries ( N = 55,927), res…
The Use of HR Policies and Job Satisfaction of Older Workers
Against the backdrop of aging populations and policies to extend working lives, this study advances prior research by examining how job satisfaction of older workers is associated with not only own, but also coworkers’ usage of 3 human resource (HR) policies: phasing out (i.e., lighter workload, additional leave, and semi-retirement), demotion, and training. Exploiting unique, linked organization-department-employee data from the European Sustain…
Helping helpers? The role of monetary transfers in combining unpaid care and paid work
Applying fixed-effects models using Waves 2 to 13 (2007–19) of the German Labour Market and Social Security panel study, we examine how unpaid caring changes labour supply and if monthly monetary transfers from the care recipient to the carer motivate a reduction in labour supply. We find that for both women and men, starting high-intensity caring increased the likelihood of becoming non-employed. Women were already likely to reduce working hours…
Social class, economic and political grievances and radical left voting: The role of macroeconomic performance
The classic gap between lower and higher social classes in their likelihood to vote for radical left parties (RLPs) persists to this day. Prior studies showed that economic and political grievances predict support for the radical left, but they largely neglected to address whether the working class is more likely to vote for RLPs because they are economically and politically dissatisfied. This study, therefore, examines the explanatory role of ec…
Informal care trajectories over the lifecourse in the Netherlands
This study sets out to identify and describe informal care trajectories over the lifecourse in the Netherlands, and evaluate theoretical ideas on informal care trajectories. We conduct latent profile analysis on a sample of 949 respondents who retrospectively reported on all informal care episodes they had ever experienced, based on the number of episodes, age at first caring episode, duration and overlap. We identified four informal care traject…
Work-family trajectories across Europe: Differences between social groups and welfare regimes
Our findings highlight the socially stratified nature of earlier-life work-family trajectories in Europe. Potential implications for inequalities in later life are discussed
Strategies of informal caregivers to adapt paid work
Informal caregiving, meaning taking health-related care of an older and/or disabled person in the personal network, often has consequences for paid work. Classically, scholars focus on two strategies of informal caregivers to adapt employment: stopping to work and reducing working hours. Two other plausible, but neglected, strategies may similarly have career consequences, namely changing jobs and becoming self-employed. First, we empirically ass…
Trajectories of job resources and the timing of retirement
Job resources benefit and motivate workers and, therefore, facilitate longer working lives. Yet, little is known about how job resources develop over time and how, in turn, trajectories of job resources are associated with retirement timing. Accordingly, this study examines job resource trajectories of older workers and to what extent these trajectories are related to when people retire. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement…
Rechts-populistisch stemmen: Logische keuze of blind protest
Contains fulltext : 319000.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Life Courses and Retirement Adjustment Among Men and Women in the Netherlands
This study examines life courses and retirement adjustment in the Netherlands. Gender-split latent class analyses identify four distinct trajectories among men and women, covering life events in work, family, health, care, and volunteering. The largest trajectories indicate traditional male and female life courses. Compared to those with traditional male trajectories, men with lifelong volunteering adjust better to retirement, financially, social…
What drives people to work in retirement? The role of work–family trajectories, finances, health, and welfare state generosity in bridge employment across Europe
Bridge employment—retirees performing paid work before permanently retiring—is becoming increasingly common. However, it remains unclear how bridge employment is shaped by people’s work–family trajectories across different welfare states. Using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and estimating 3-level linear probability models, results show that—compared to continuously full-time employed persons in nuclear families—those who r…
Who works while sick and who enjoys the golden years? Changing disparities in time spent in health and work after age 50 in the United States
While full retirement age in the United States is increasing, longevity improvements have stagnated, Americans with low educational attainment have not experienced delayed health impairments, and there remain substantial racial disparities in morbidity and mortality. Using the Health and Retirement Study, we ran discrete-time multistate models to examine how these trends together shape educational and racial/ethnic differences in expected time sp…
Wage Premium or Wage Penalty? Gendered Long-term Wage Development of Family Caregivers
This study theoretically and empirically assesses the gendered relationship between family caregiving (excluding regular childcare) and wage development in the Netherlands applying conflict theory, which predicts a wage penalty due to difficulties in combining paid work and care, and enrichment theory, which expects a wage premium because of acquired skills and recognition. Growth curve modelling was used to analyse hourly wages from 19 years of …
Economics (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Demographic economics (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (9 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works)