Júlia Mikolai
Biographic Data
| ID | 207980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Júlia Mikolai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Júlia |
| FAMILY NAME | Mikolai |
| SIGNATURE | MIKOLAI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7733-6659 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 166 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Residential Mobility and Housing Tenure Among Immigrants and Their Descendants
Understanding the housing and residential mobility of migrant populations is crucial to facilitate their integration into host societies. Yet, little is known about their experiences across generations, origin groups, and country contexts. This study investigates residential mobility and housing changes among immigrants and their descendants in five European countries (United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden) with different housi…
Spatial variation in fertility change at the county level in China
Spatial Fertility Variation in China
This study analyses spatial variation in fertility and its determinants, including their direct and spillover impact, in China. We apply spatial regression models to the 2000 population census. The results show, first, that there is significant spatial variation in fertility at the county level in China and that counties with similar fertility levels tend to cluster together. Second, the total fertility rate (TFR) is higher in counties with a sma…
Health Decline and Residential Transitions Among Older Adults in Europe
Residential mobility is a possible strategy to cope with health challenges in later life. However, little research has examined whether and how health decline triggers residential mobility and whether this relationship differs between parents and childless individuals. Using data on parents and non‐parents aged 50+ from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we perform multinomial logistic regression to examine how recent …
Time Since Separation, Repartnering, and Homeownership in England and Wales, and Germany
Separation, divorce, and repartnering are increasingly common across European societies. These partnership transitions are closely related to individuals' housing careers. For example, after separation, individuals are likely to move out of homeownership and experience a period of elevated residential mobility. However, little is known about the role of repartnering for post‐separation housing careers. This paper investigates homeownership levels…
Origin, Generation, and Destination Country Context
This study investigates the link between childbearing and employment changes of female immigrants and their descendants in three European countries: the UK, France, and Germany. Although childbearing significantly influences female labour force participation, the interrelationship between fertility and employment changes among migrant populations is poorly understood. We use event history models to study employment entry and exit by migration bac…
Family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in three European countries
This study investigates partnership changes and childbearing among immigrants and their descendants in the UK, France, and Germany. Our analysis of longitudinal data shows, first, significant diversity in family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in Europe. Immigrants from other European countries and their descendants tend to cohabit prior to marriage, and their fertility in unions is often similar to that of the native populati…
The partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories of immigrants in the United Kingdom
BACKGROUND: Although immigrants’ employment, partnership, and childbearing are intertwined, most previous longitudinal studies have focused on only one of these life domains. OBJECTIVE: We investigate gendered patterns of the co-evolution of the partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories of immigrants from different origin countries. METHODS: We use the UK Household Longitudinal Study and multi-channel sequence analysis to establish type…
On the Timing of Marriage and Childbearing
This paper examines childbearing in and outside of marriage as a manifestation of the Second Demographic Transition among immigrant populations in Switzerland. Based on full-population register data, we simultaneously analyse fertility and partnership changes at different stages of the migration process. Results from a multistate event history model show that most of the differences in family formation patterns between migrant groups and natives …
Urban–Rural Disparities in the Transition to Parenthood During Times of Uncertainty
Over the last 15 years, many European countries have experienced fertility declines. Existing research on this shift in fertility behavior points to economic aspects and increased levels of uncertainty as important drivers. However, in this debate little attention has been paid to how the relevance of individual- and contextual-level dimensions for understanding the new fertility patterns varies by level of urbanization. This is surprising given …
Partnership Status, Health, and Mortality
Married individuals have better health and lower mortality than nonmarried people. Studies show that when cohabitants are distinguished from other nonmarried groups, health differences between partnered and nonpartnered individuals become even more pronounced. Some researchers have argued that partnered individuals have better health and lower mortality because a partnership offers protective effects (protection); others have posited that partner…
Intergenerational transmission of fertility in Great Britain
Studies in low-fertility settings have consistently found positive relationships between parents' and children's fertility timing and family sizes, and these persist after accounting for socio-demographic factors. We explore intergenerational transmission of fertility in Great Britain, where socio-economic inequalities are larger and could play a greater role in explaining intergenerational continuities than in other settings. Using the 1970 Brit…
Diverse Early-Life Family Trajectories and Young Children's Mental Health in the UK
Past research suggests that children from two-parent married families fare better than children from other families on many outcomes. Only fragmented evidence on diverse family trajectories in association with child mental health is available. Using multi-channel sequence analysis and data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we jointly capture maternal partnership trajectories and type of father co-residence between birth and age 5. We then…
Intermarriage and housing upon separation. A matter of resources and bargaining power
ObjectiveThis paper examines post-separation residential outcomes in immigrant, native, and immigrant-native mixed (married and cohabiting) couples.BackgroundPrevious research showed that women were more likely to leave the family home upon separation than men, indicating a weaker bargaining position.MethodUsing linked survey and register data from Switzerland, we estimate two post-separation mobility outcomes: who leaves the family home and to w…
The war, refugees, and the future of Ukraine's population
This study analyses the effect of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 on the future of Ukraine's population. We conduct a series of population projections with different assumptions on the proportion of refugees that may return to Ukraine. Our projections show that if past demographic trends continue, Ukraine's population is projected to decline by one‐sixth over the next two decades and become older. These trends are largely driven by past and …
Partnership and fertility trajectories of immigrants and descendants in the United Kingdom
We study the interrelationships between partnership and fertility trajectories of immigrant women and female descendants of immigrants using the UK Household Longitudinal Study. We propose a novel multistate event history approach to analyse the outcomes of unpartnered, cohabiting, and married women. We find that the partnership and fertility behaviours of immigrants and descendants from European and Western countries are similar to those of nati…
Spatial patterns of Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 mortality across waves of infection in England, Wales, and Scotland
Recent studies have established the key individual-level risk factors of COVID-19 mortality such as age, gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic status. However, the spread of infectious diseases is a spatial and temporal process implying that COVID-19 mortality and its determinants may vary sub-nationally and over time. We investigate the spatial patterns of age-standardised death rates due to COVID-19 and their correlates across local authority d…
Learning in a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the greatest disruption to children's schooling in generations. This study analyses primary school children's emotional engagement with remote schooling during the Spring 2020 lockdown in the Republic of Ireland, which involved one of the longest school closures among rich countries at the time. It investigates whether children's engagement with their remote schooling varied by personal and family characteristics…
Separation and Elevated Residential Mobility
This study investigates the magnitude and persistence of elevated post-separation residential mobility (i.e. residential instability) in five countries (Australia, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK) with similar levels of economic development, but different welfare provisions and housing markets. While many studies examine residential changes related to separation in selected individual countries, only very few have compared patterns …
Intersecting household-level health and socio-economic vulnerabilities and the Covid-19 crisis
The effects of COVID-19 are likely to be socially stratified. Disease control measures introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic mean that people spend much more time in their immediate households, due to lockdowns, the need to self-isolate, and school and workplace closures. This has elevated the importance of certain household-level characteristics for individuals' current and future wellbeing. The multi-dimensional poverty and health inequalitie…
Spatial variation in fertility across Europe
This study investigates spatial variation in fertility in Europe. We analyse spatial variation in total fertility rates using small‐scale geographical data from 21 European countries for 2010 and investigate the role economic, sociocultural, and spatial factors play in regional fertility levels. We compare the performance of conventional ordinary least squares regression and multilevel modelling with that of different spatial regression models an…
Family life transitions, residential relocations, and housing in the life course
This article provides an introduction to the Special Collection on â Separation, Divorce, and Residential Mobility in a Comparative Perspective.â The Special Collection consists of six European case studies: Belgium, Finland, France, Italy, Hungary, and the
Remain, leave, or return? Mothers' location continuity after separation in Belgium
Partnership dissolution can mark an extended period of residential instability for mothers and their children. Location continuity, i.e., the ability to stay in or return to the same neighbourhood after separation, is essential to reduce the negative conse
A decade of life-course research on fertility of immigrants and their descendants in Europe
This article provides an introduction to a special collection on childbearing among the descendants of immigrants in Europe. We first review recent life-course research on fertility of immigrants and their descendants followed by a summary of the papers of
Union dissolution and housing trajectories in Britain
A growing body of literature shows that divorce and separation have negative consequences for individualsâ residential mobility and housing conditions. Yet, no study to date has examined housing trajectories of separated individuals
A decade of life-course research on fertility of immigrants and their descendants in Europe
This article provides an introduction to a special collection on childbearing among the descendants of immigrants in Europe. We first review recent life-course research on fertility of immigrants and their descendants followed by a summary of the papers of
Divorce, Separation, and Housing Changes
This study investigates the effect of marital and nonmarital separation on individuals’ residential and housing trajectories. Using rich data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and applying multilevel competing-risks event history models, we analyze the risk of a move of single, married, cohabiting, and separated men and women to different housing types. We distinguish moves due to separation from moves of separated people and account…
Short- and long-term effects of divorce and separation on housing tenure in England and Wales
This paper investigates the effects of marital and non-marital separation on individuals' housing tenure in England and Wales. We apply competing risks event history models to data from the British Household Panel Survey and the UK Household Longitudinal Study to analyse the risk of a residential move to different tenure types, for single, married, cohabiting, and separated men and women. Separated individuals are more likely to move and experien…
The role of education in the intersection of partnership transitions and motherhood in Europe and the United States
Previous research has shown that partnership status at first birth is associated with education across Europe and the United States. Most research has indicated that first births within cohabitation have a negative educational gradient. However, the pathwa
Partnership and fertility trajectories of immigrants and descendants in the United Kingdom
We study the interrelationships between partnership and fertility trajectories of immigrant women and female descendants of immigrants using the UK Household Longitudinal Study. We propose a novel multistate event history approach to analyse the outcomes of unpartnered, cohabiting, and married women. We find that the partnership and fertility behaviours of immigrants and descendants from European and Western countries are similar to those of nati…
Spatial variation in fertility across Europe
This study investigates spatial variation in fertility in Europe. We analyse spatial variation in total fertility rates using small‐scale geographical data from 21 European countries for 2010 and investigate the role economic, sociocultural, and spatial factors play in regional fertility levels. We compare the performance of conventional ordinary least squares regression and multilevel modelling with that of different spatial regression models an…
Separation and Elevated Residential Mobility
This study investigates the magnitude and persistence of elevated post-separation residential mobility (i.e. residential instability) in five countries (Australia, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK) with similar levels of economic development, but different welfare provisions and housing markets. While many studies examine residential changes related to separation in selected individual countries, only very few have compared patterns …
Separation, divorce, and housing tenure
Housing tenure after divorce is an important factor in individualsâ well-being. Although previous studies have examined tenure changes following divorce, only a few studies have compared patterns across countries
Union dissolution and housing trajectories in Britain
A growing body of literature shows that divorce and separation have negative consequences for individualsâ residential mobility and housing conditions. Yet, no study to date has examined housing trajectories of separated individuals
Family life transitions, residential relocations, and housing in the life course
This article provides an introduction to the Special Collection on â Separation, Divorce, and Residential Mobility in a Comparative Perspective.â The Special Collection consists of six European case studies: Belgium, Finland, France, Italy, Hungary, and the
Remain, leave, or return? Mothers' location continuity after separation in Belgium
Partnership dissolution can mark an extended period of residential instability for mothers and their children. Location continuity, i.e., the ability to stay in or return to the same neighbourhood after separation, is essential to reduce the negative conse
The war, refugees, and the future of Ukraine's population
This study analyses the effect of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 on the future of Ukraine's population. We conduct a series of population projections with different assumptions on the proportion of refugees that may return to Ukraine. Our projections show that if past demographic trends continue, Ukraine's population is projected to decline by one‐sixth over the next two decades and become older. These trends are largely driven by past and …
Family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in three European countries
This study investigates partnership changes and childbearing among immigrants and their descendants in the UK, France, and Germany. Our analysis of longitudinal data shows, first, significant diversity in family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in Europe. Immigrants from other European countries and their descendants tend to cohabit prior to marriage, and their fertility in unions is often similar to that of the native populati…
Parcours conjugaux et transition tardive vers la première maternité en Europe
La multiplication des expériences conjugales est susceptible d’accentuer l’ajournement des naissances et d’augmenter le risque pour les femmes de rester sans enfant contre leur volonté. Jusqu’à maintenant, les recherches sur les liens entre mise en couple et première naissance se sont généralement concentrées sur la situation conjugale et sur un seul pays. Cet article examine comment la situation et le parcours conjugal des femmes sans enfant à 3…
Partnership Status, Health, and Mortality
Married individuals have better health and lower mortality than nonmarried people. Studies show that when cohabitants are distinguished from other nonmarried groups, health differences between partnered and nonpartnered individuals become even more pronounced. Some researchers have argued that partnered individuals have better health and lower mortality because a partnership offers protective effects (protection); others have posited that partner…
The partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories of immigrants in the United Kingdom
BACKGROUND: Although immigrants’ employment, partnership, and childbearing are intertwined, most previous longitudinal studies have focused on only one of these life domains. OBJECTIVE: We investigate gendered patterns of the co-evolution of the partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories of immigrants from different origin countries. METHODS: We use the UK Household Longitudinal Study and multi-channel sequence analysis to establish type…
On the Timing of Marriage and Childbearing
This paper examines childbearing in and outside of marriage as a manifestation of the Second Demographic Transition among immigrant populations in Switzerland. Based on full-population register data, we simultaneously analyse fertility and partnership changes at different stages of the migration process. Results from a multistate event history model show that most of the differences in family formation patterns between migrant groups and natives …
Parcours conjugaux et transition tardive vers la première maternité en Europe
La multiplication des expériences conjugales est susceptible d’accentuer l’ajournement des naissances et d’augmenter le risque pour les femmes de rester sans enfant contre leur volonté. Jusqu’à maintenant, les recherches sur les liens entre mise en couple et première naissance se sont généralement concentrées sur la situation conjugale et sur un seul pays. Cet article examine comment la situation et le parcours conjugal des femmes sans enfant à 3…
Divorce, Separation, and Housing Changes
This study investigates the effect of marital and nonmarital separation on individuals’ residential and housing trajectories. Using rich data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and applying multilevel competing-risks event history models, we analyze the risk of a move of single, married, cohabiting, and separated men and women to different housing types. We distinguish moves due to separation from moves of separated people and account…
The role of education in the intersection of partnership transitions and motherhood in Europe and the United States
Previous research has shown that partnership status at first birth is associated with education across Europe and the United States. Most research has indicated that first births within cohabitation have a negative educational gradient. However, the pathwa
Short- and long-term effects of divorce and separation on housing tenure in England and Wales
This paper investigates the effects of marital and non-marital separation on individuals' housing tenure in England and Wales. We apply competing risks event history models to data from the British Household Panel Survey and the UK Household Longitudinal Study to analyse the risk of a residential move to different tenure types, for single, married, cohabiting, and separated men and women. Separated individuals are more likely to move and experien…
A decade of life-course research on fertility of immigrants and their descendants in Europe
This article provides an introduction to a special collection on childbearing among the descendants of immigrants in Europe. We first review recent life-course research on fertility of immigrants and their descendants followed by a summary of the papers of
Union dissolution and housing trajectories in Britain
A growing body of literature shows that divorce and separation have negative consequences for individualsâ residential mobility and housing conditions. Yet, no study to date has examined housing trajectories of separated individuals
Separation, divorce, and housing tenure
Housing tenure after divorce is an important factor in individualsâ well-being. Although previous studies have examined tenure changes following divorce, only a few studies have compared patterns across countries
Intersecting household-level health and socio-economic vulnerabilities and the Covid-19 crisis
The effects of COVID-19 are likely to be socially stratified. Disease control measures introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic mean that people spend much more time in their immediate households, due to lockdowns, the need to self-isolate, and school and workplace closures. This has elevated the importance of certain household-level characteristics for individuals' current and future wellbeing. The multi-dimensional poverty and health inequalitie…
Spatial variation in fertility across Europe
This study investigates spatial variation in fertility in Europe. We analyse spatial variation in total fertility rates using small‐scale geographical data from 21 European countries for 2010 and investigate the role economic, sociocultural, and spatial factors play in regional fertility levels. We compare the performance of conventional ordinary least squares regression and multilevel modelling with that of different spatial regression models an…
Family life transitions, residential relocations, and housing in the life course
This article provides an introduction to the Special Collection on â Separation, Divorce, and Residential Mobility in a Comparative Perspective.â The Special Collection consists of six European case studies: Belgium, Finland, France, Italy, Hungary, and the
Remain, leave, or return? Mothers' location continuity after separation in Belgium
Partnership dissolution can mark an extended period of residential instability for mothers and their children. Location continuity, i.e., the ability to stay in or return to the same neighbourhood after separation, is essential to reduce the negative conse
Separation and Elevated Residential Mobility
This study investigates the magnitude and persistence of elevated post-separation residential mobility (i.e. residential instability) in five countries (Australia, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK) with similar levels of economic development, but different welfare provisions and housing markets. While many studies examine residential changes related to separation in selected individual countries, only very few have compared patterns …
Learning in a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the greatest disruption to children's schooling in generations. This study analyses primary school children's emotional engagement with remote schooling during the Spring 2020 lockdown in the Republic of Ireland, which involved one of the longest school closures among rich countries at the time. It investigates whether children's engagement with their remote schooling varied by personal and family characteristics…
The war, refugees, and the future of Ukraine's population
This study analyses the effect of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 on the future of Ukraine's population. We conduct a series of population projections with different assumptions on the proportion of refugees that may return to Ukraine. Our projections show that if past demographic trends continue, Ukraine's population is projected to decline by one‐sixth over the next two decades and become older. These trends are largely driven by past and …
Partnership and fertility trajectories of immigrants and descendants in the United Kingdom
We study the interrelationships between partnership and fertility trajectories of immigrant women and female descendants of immigrants using the UK Household Longitudinal Study. We propose a novel multistate event history approach to analyse the outcomes of unpartnered, cohabiting, and married women. We find that the partnership and fertility behaviours of immigrants and descendants from European and Western countries are similar to those of nati…
Spatial patterns of Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 mortality across waves of infection in England, Wales, and Scotland
Recent studies have established the key individual-level risk factors of COVID-19 mortality such as age, gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic status. However, the spread of infectious diseases is a spatial and temporal process implying that COVID-19 mortality and its determinants may vary sub-nationally and over time. We investigate the spatial patterns of age-standardised death rates due to COVID-19 and their correlates across local authority d…
On the Timing of Marriage and Childbearing
This paper examines childbearing in and outside of marriage as a manifestation of the Second Demographic Transition among immigrant populations in Switzerland. Based on full-population register data, we simultaneously analyse fertility and partnership changes at different stages of the migration process. Results from a multistate event history model show that most of the differences in family formation patterns between migrant groups and natives …
Urban–Rural Disparities in the Transition to Parenthood During Times of Uncertainty
Over the last 15 years, many European countries have experienced fertility declines. Existing research on this shift in fertility behavior points to economic aspects and increased levels of uncertainty as important drivers. However, in this debate little attention has been paid to how the relevance of individual- and contextual-level dimensions for understanding the new fertility patterns varies by level of urbanization. This is surprising given …
Partnership Status, Health, and Mortality
Married individuals have better health and lower mortality than nonmarried people. Studies show that when cohabitants are distinguished from other nonmarried groups, health differences between partnered and nonpartnered individuals become even more pronounced. Some researchers have argued that partnered individuals have better health and lower mortality because a partnership offers protective effects (protection); others have posited that partner…
Intergenerational transmission of fertility in Great Britain
Studies in low-fertility settings have consistently found positive relationships between parents' and children's fertility timing and family sizes, and these persist after accounting for socio-demographic factors. We explore intergenerational transmission of fertility in Great Britain, where socio-economic inequalities are larger and could play a greater role in explaining intergenerational continuities than in other settings. Using the 1970 Brit…
Diverse Early-Life Family Trajectories and Young Children's Mental Health in the UK
Past research suggests that children from two-parent married families fare better than children from other families on many outcomes. Only fragmented evidence on diverse family trajectories in association with child mental health is available. Using multi-channel sequence analysis and data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we jointly capture maternal partnership trajectories and type of father co-residence between birth and age 5. We then…
Intermarriage and housing upon separation. A matter of resources and bargaining power
ObjectiveThis paper examines post-separation residential outcomes in immigrant, native, and immigrant-native mixed (married and cohabiting) couples.BackgroundPrevious research showed that women were more likely to leave the family home upon separation than men, indicating a weaker bargaining position.MethodUsing linked survey and register data from Switzerland, we estimate two post-separation mobility outcomes: who leaves the family home and to w…
Spatial variation in fertility change at the county level in China
Spatial Fertility Variation in China
This study analyses spatial variation in fertility and its determinants, including their direct and spillover impact, in China. We apply spatial regression models to the 2000 population census. The results show, first, that there is significant spatial variation in fertility at the county level in China and that counties with similar fertility levels tend to cluster together. Second, the total fertility rate (TFR) is higher in counties with a sma…
Health Decline and Residential Transitions Among Older Adults in Europe
Residential mobility is a possible strategy to cope with health challenges in later life. However, little research has examined whether and how health decline triggers residential mobility and whether this relationship differs between parents and childless individuals. Using data on parents and non‐parents aged 50+ from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we perform multinomial logistic regression to examine how recent …
Sociology (21 works) · Economics (19 works) · Demography (17 works) · Demographic economics (16 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (13 works) · Population (13 works) · Fertility (11 works)