Wilfred Uunk
Biographic Data
| ID | 4149497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wilfred Uunk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wilfred |
| FAMILY NAME | Uunk |
| SIGNATURE | UUNK W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tilburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8049-7322 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 441 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Vibes over salary? How post-materialistic values shape teenagers’ STEM aspirations
Women’s underrepresentation in STEM fields tends to be more pronounced in affluent societies. We aim to advance literature by examining the extent to which this affluence paradox (AP) can be accounted for by post-materialistic values and whether they moderate the influence of household affluence on STEM aspirations. We argue that affluence fosters self-expression and gendered beliefs that channel men and women into different fields. Estimating mu…
Does Societal Affluence Increase the Gender Gap in STEM Graduation? A Longitudinal Assessment
Recent studies cast doubt on the assumption that national gender equality widens the gender gap in preferences and choices for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) majors, as posited by the Gender-Equality Paradox (GEP). Gender-equality effects do not show up within world regions, and the effects cannot be disentangled from other factors found to be higher in “the West.” However, the Affluence Paradox, which describes larger g…
Can Gender Stereotypes Explain the Gender‐Equality Paradox? A Reassessment
The social science literature surprisingly found that gender differences in the choice of and preference for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) study majors are larger in more gender‐equal and affluent countries. This phenomenon is known as the Gender‐Equality Paradox (GEP). Some scholars attributed GEP regarding students' mathematics intentions entirely to gender stereotypes, particularly the stereotype that “math is not fo…
The Role of Math and Language Performance in Explaining the Gender Gap in STEM Major Choice. A Test for Germany
Across the globe, women choose science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors (STEM) less often than men. One frequently suggested explanation of this gender gap is that women perform less well in math and better in language than men in secondary school and have a comparative advantage in language. Studies for the Anglo-Saxon context have only found weak support for this school performance explanation due to small gender differences in …
Trends and Cross-National Differences in Educational Homogamy in Europe
The extent of educational homogamy has important consequences for social inequalities and social cohesion. However, little is known about current trends, cross-national differences, and the drivers of educational homogamy in Europe. This study aims to fill this gap by (a) describing trends in absolute educational homogamy (i.e., the share of similarly educated partners) and relative educational homogamy (i.e., homogamy corrected for the distribut…
Does the gender-equality paradox hold on the micro level? An assessment of the effect of household wealth on gendered math intentions for 60 countries
The Gender-Equality Paradox (GEP) describes the phenomenon that the gender gap in the preference for and choice of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors is larger in more affluent and gender-egalitarian societies. GEP has theoretically been explained by greater economic opportunities in affluent societies for gendered self-realization, yet the literature lacks a test of this explanation on the individual level. This stud…
Do Personality Traits Moderate the Effects of Cohabitation, Separation, and Widowhood on Life Satisfaction? A Longitudinal Test for Germany
The start and end of a romantic relationship are associated with substantial changes in life satisfaction. Yet, whether Big Five personality traits moderate these relationship transition effects is hardly known. Such knowledge helps to understand individual variation in relationship transition effects and provides the possibility to further test the stress and social support explanations of these effects. Our fixed effects regressions on 28 waves…
The Effect of Regional Gender-Role Attitudes on Female Labour Supply
Despite considerable variation in gender-role attitudes across contexts and its claimed influence on female labour supply, studies provide little support for a contextual gender-role attitude effect. In this study, we reassess the contextual gender-role attitude effect on female labour supply because earlier studies are hampered by two shortcomings: (a) they are cross-nationally comparative, which makes it difficult to distinguish contextual atti…
Going with the Flow? The Effect of Economic Fluctuation on People's Solidarity with Unemployed People
Does the ethnic gap in homeownership vary by income? An analysis on Dutch survey data
Lower levels of homeownership among immigrant populations have frequently been related to the particular financial constraints that immigrant households can face. Various problems have been raised with this explanation for the ethnic gap in homeownership rates. This paper responds to these criticisms by sensitizing the financial constraints explanation to the possibility of differential effects of ethnicity depending upon level of income. The hyp…
The shadow of future homeownership
Previous research has shown that labour supply - especially of partnered women with supplemental incomes - is positively associated with homeownership status. This literature is advanced by testing whether wanting to move into homeownership before the actual entry into homeownership affects individuals' labour supply in couples. The empirical analysis is based on longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2008). Fixed-effects…
Opleidingshomogamie in Nederland revisited
Educational homogamy in the Netherlands revisited. Stability or increased segmentation on the marriage market? Using large-scale, representative survey data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 waves of Aanvullende Voorzieningengebruik Onderzoek (AVO) we study trends in educational homogamy for the Netherlands between 1960 and 2010. Prior studies for the Netherlands focused on relative homogamy, the tendency to marry within the group given the supply of …
Does the Cultural Context Matter? The effect of a country's gender-role attitudes on female labor supply
Despite substantial country variation in gender-role attitudes and female labor supply and theoretical arguments stressing the consequences of contextual attitudes for individual behavior, prior research did not find evidence for an effect of a country's gender-role attitudes on female labor supply. In this study I reassess this finding using a powerful multilevel design on the 2008 wave of the European Values Study on 33 countries. I find a subs…
The Dynamics of Welfare Opinions in Changing Economic, Institutional and Political Contexts
For Better and for Worse
The Effect of Children on Men’s and Women’s Chances of Re-partnering in a European Context
Popular Criteria for the Welfare Deservingness of Disability Pensioners
Research has shown that several criteria underlie people's opinions about the welfare deservingness of benefit recipients. However, it remains unknown which factors are associated with the emphasis that people place on such criteria. Using a 2006 Dutch national survey on the welfare deservingness of disability pension recipients, we study the influence of structural and cultural factors on people's emphasis on three deservingness criteria: contro…
Explaining ethnic outgroup feelings from a multigroup perspective
The Employment of Separated Women in Europe
Studies on the economic consequences of divorce for women have paid little attention to changes in employment. In this article, we investigate changes in employment for separating women and the impact of individual and institutional factors on these changes using data on 13 countries from the European Community Household Panel (1994–2001). Our dynamic analyses of the odds of employment entry and exit, and changes in working hours demonstrate that…
Remarriage as a Way to Overcome the Financial Consequences of Divorce--A Test of the Economic Need Hypothesis for European Women
In this article, we investigate to what extent remarriage functions as a strategy to overcome post-divorce financial distress, and whether this varies across welfare states. To this end, we estimate the impact of divorced women's income (changes) on repartnering and vice versa, using longitudinal data from the European Community Household Panel for 11 Member States. Our analyses provide support for the economic need hypothesis. An income decline …
Regional value differences in Europe and the social consequences of divorce
Welfare Spending and the Public's Concern for Immigrants
There is a large body of empirical evidence showing that negative images of immigrants and the related subtle and sometimes blatant prejudice against them are widespread among the populations of European countries.1 Yet empirical studies in this field only occasional ly investigate public images of immigrants' deservingness to receive rights, income benefits, and social services.2 This situation is remarkable since in many European coun tries imm…
The Impact of Young Children on Women's Labour Supply
The proportion of women who withdraw from paid employment when they have children differs considerably among the countries of the European Union (EU), and the variation has mostly been attributed to institutional factors. In this study, we reassess the institutional explanation, because earlier supportive evidence is threatened by two alternative macro-level explanations: the influence of the economic necessity to work and the influence of gender…
Job Mobility in the Former East and West Germany
In this article we study job shift patterns in the former East and West Germany. We compare rates of (within-firm and across-firm) job mobility of East and West German men and study the impact of labor market composition (education, social class, industrial sector, and firm size) on the mobility rates. Our hypotheses are derived from an institutional approach in which we describe similarities and differences in institutions and structures of the …
The Economic Consequences of Divorce for Women in the European Union
The Impact of Young Children on Women's Labour Supply
The proportion of women who withdraw from paid employment when they have children differs considerably among the countries of the European Union (EU), and the variation has mostly been attributed to institutional factors. In this study, we reassess the institutional explanation, because earlier supportive evidence is threatened by two alternative macro-level explanations: the influence of the economic necessity to work and the influence of gender…
The Economic Consequences of Divorce for Women in the European Union
The Effect of Children on Men’s and Women’s Chances of Re-partnering in a European Context
The Dynamics of Welfare Opinions in Changing Economic, Institutional and Political Contexts
Remarriage as a Way to Overcome the Financial Consequences of Divorce--A Test of the Economic Need Hypothesis for European Women
In this article, we investigate to what extent remarriage functions as a strategy to overcome post-divorce financial distress, and whether this varies across welfare states. To this end, we estimate the impact of divorced women's income (changes) on repartnering and vice versa, using longitudinal data from the European Community Household Panel for 11 Member States. Our analyses provide support for the economic need hypothesis. An income decline …
Popular Criteria for the Welfare Deservingness of Disability Pensioners
Research has shown that several criteria underlie people's opinions about the welfare deservingness of benefit recipients. However, it remains unknown which factors are associated with the emphasis that people place on such criteria. Using a 2006 Dutch national survey on the welfare deservingness of disability pension recipients, we study the influence of structural and cultural factors on people's emphasis on three deservingness criteria: contro…
Welfare Spending and the Public's Concern for Immigrants
There is a large body of empirical evidence showing that negative images of immigrants and the related subtle and sometimes blatant prejudice against them are widespread among the populations of European countries.1 Yet empirical studies in this field only occasional ly investigate public images of immigrants' deservingness to receive rights, income benefits, and social services.2 This situation is remarkable since in many European coun tries imm…
Regional value differences in Europe and the social consequences of divorce
The Employment of Separated Women in Europe
Studies on the economic consequences of divorce for women have paid little attention to changes in employment. In this article, we investigate changes in employment for separating women and the impact of individual and institutional factors on these changes using data on 13 countries from the European Community Household Panel (1994–2001). Our dynamic analyses of the odds of employment entry and exit, and changes in working hours demonstrate that…
Does the Cultural Context Matter? The effect of a country's gender-role attitudes on female labor supply
Despite substantial country variation in gender-role attitudes and female labor supply and theoretical arguments stressing the consequences of contextual attitudes for individual behavior, prior research did not find evidence for an effect of a country's gender-role attitudes on female labor supply. In this study I reassess this finding using a powerful multilevel design on the 2008 wave of the European Values Study on 33 countries. I find a subs…
For Better and for Worse
The Effect of Regional Gender-Role Attitudes on Female Labour Supply
Despite considerable variation in gender-role attitudes across contexts and its claimed influence on female labour supply, studies provide little support for a contextual gender-role attitude effect. In this study, we reassess the contextual gender-role attitude effect on female labour supply because earlier studies are hampered by two shortcomings: (a) they are cross-nationally comparative, which makes it difficult to distinguish contextual atti…
Explaining ethnic outgroup feelings from a multigroup perspective
Does the ethnic gap in homeownership vary by income? An analysis on Dutch survey data
Lower levels of homeownership among immigrant populations have frequently been related to the particular financial constraints that immigrant households can face. Various problems have been raised with this explanation for the ethnic gap in homeownership rates. This paper responds to these criticisms by sensitizing the financial constraints explanation to the possibility of differential effects of ethnicity depending upon level of income. The hyp…
Going with the Flow? The Effect of Economic Fluctuation on People's Solidarity with Unemployed People
The shadow of future homeownership
Previous research has shown that labour supply - especially of partnered women with supplemental incomes - is positively associated with homeownership status. This literature is advanced by testing whether wanting to move into homeownership before the actual entry into homeownership affects individuals' labour supply in couples. The empirical analysis is based on longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2008). Fixed-effects…
Job Mobility in the Former East and West Germany
In this article we study job shift patterns in the former East and West Germany. We compare rates of (within-firm and across-firm) job mobility of East and West German men and study the impact of labor market composition (education, social class, industrial sector, and firm size) on the mobility rates. Our hypotheses are derived from an institutional approach in which we describe similarities and differences in institutions and structures of the …
Trends and Cross-National Differences in Educational Homogamy in Europe
The extent of educational homogamy has important consequences for social inequalities and social cohesion. However, little is known about current trends, cross-national differences, and the drivers of educational homogamy in Europe. This study aims to fill this gap by (a) describing trends in absolute educational homogamy (i.e., the share of similarly educated partners) and relative educational homogamy (i.e., homogamy corrected for the distribut…
The Economic Consequences of Divorce for Women in the European Union
The Impact of Young Children on Women's Labour Supply
The proportion of women who withdraw from paid employment when they have children differs considerably among the countries of the European Union (EU), and the variation has mostly been attributed to institutional factors. In this study, we reassess the institutional explanation, because earlier supportive evidence is threatened by two alternative macro-level explanations: the influence of the economic necessity to work and the influence of gender…
Job Mobility in the Former East and West Germany
In this article we study job shift patterns in the former East and West Germany. We compare rates of (within-firm and across-firm) job mobility of East and West German men and study the impact of labor market composition (education, social class, industrial sector, and firm size) on the mobility rates. Our hypotheses are derived from an institutional approach in which we describe similarities and differences in institutions and structures of the …
Regional value differences in Europe and the social consequences of divorce
Welfare Spending and the Public's Concern for Immigrants
There is a large body of empirical evidence showing that negative images of immigrants and the related subtle and sometimes blatant prejudice against them are widespread among the populations of European countries.1 Yet empirical studies in this field only occasional ly investigate public images of immigrants' deservingness to receive rights, income benefits, and social services.2 This situation is remarkable since in many European coun tries imm…
The Employment of Separated Women in Europe
Studies on the economic consequences of divorce for women have paid little attention to changes in employment. In this article, we investigate changes in employment for separating women and the impact of individual and institutional factors on these changes using data on 13 countries from the European Community Household Panel (1994–2001). Our dynamic analyses of the odds of employment entry and exit, and changes in working hours demonstrate that…
Remarriage as a Way to Overcome the Financial Consequences of Divorce--A Test of the Economic Need Hypothesis for European Women
In this article, we investigate to what extent remarriage functions as a strategy to overcome post-divorce financial distress, and whether this varies across welfare states. To this end, we estimate the impact of divorced women's income (changes) on repartnering and vice versa, using longitudinal data from the European Community Household Panel for 11 Member States. Our analyses provide support for the economic need hypothesis. An income decline …
Explaining ethnic outgroup feelings from a multigroup perspective
For Better and for Worse
The Effect of Children on Men’s and Women’s Chances of Re-partnering in a European Context
Popular Criteria for the Welfare Deservingness of Disability Pensioners
Research has shown that several criteria underlie people's opinions about the welfare deservingness of benefit recipients. However, it remains unknown which factors are associated with the emphasis that people place on such criteria. Using a 2006 Dutch national survey on the welfare deservingness of disability pension recipients, we study the influence of structural and cultural factors on people's emphasis on three deservingness criteria: contro…
The Dynamics of Welfare Opinions in Changing Economic, Institutional and Political Contexts
Opleidingshomogamie in Nederland revisited
Educational homogamy in the Netherlands revisited. Stability or increased segmentation on the marriage market? Using large-scale, representative survey data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 waves of Aanvullende Voorzieningengebruik Onderzoek (AVO) we study trends in educational homogamy for the Netherlands between 1960 and 2010. Prior studies for the Netherlands focused on relative homogamy, the tendency to marry within the group given the supply of …
Does the Cultural Context Matter? The effect of a country's gender-role attitudes on female labor supply
Despite substantial country variation in gender-role attitudes and female labor supply and theoretical arguments stressing the consequences of contextual attitudes for individual behavior, prior research did not find evidence for an effect of a country's gender-role attitudes on female labor supply. In this study I reassess this finding using a powerful multilevel design on the 2008 wave of the European Values Study on 33 countries. I find a subs…
Does the ethnic gap in homeownership vary by income? An analysis on Dutch survey data
Lower levels of homeownership among immigrant populations have frequently been related to the particular financial constraints that immigrant households can face. Various problems have been raised with this explanation for the ethnic gap in homeownership rates. This paper responds to these criticisms by sensitizing the financial constraints explanation to the possibility of differential effects of ethnicity depending upon level of income. The hyp…
The shadow of future homeownership
Previous research has shown that labour supply - especially of partnered women with supplemental incomes - is positively associated with homeownership status. This literature is advanced by testing whether wanting to move into homeownership before the actual entry into homeownership affects individuals' labour supply in couples. The empirical analysis is based on longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2008). Fixed-effects…
The Effect of Regional Gender-Role Attitudes on Female Labour Supply
Despite considerable variation in gender-role attitudes across contexts and its claimed influence on female labour supply, studies provide little support for a contextual gender-role attitude effect. In this study, we reassess the contextual gender-role attitude effect on female labour supply because earlier studies are hampered by two shortcomings: (a) they are cross-nationally comparative, which makes it difficult to distinguish contextual atti…
Going with the Flow? The Effect of Economic Fluctuation on People's Solidarity with Unemployed People
Does the gender-equality paradox hold on the micro level? An assessment of the effect of household wealth on gendered math intentions for 60 countries
The Gender-Equality Paradox (GEP) describes the phenomenon that the gender gap in the preference for and choice of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors is larger in more affluent and gender-egalitarian societies. GEP has theoretically been explained by greater economic opportunities in affluent societies for gendered self-realization, yet the literature lacks a test of this explanation on the individual level. This stud…
Do Personality Traits Moderate the Effects of Cohabitation, Separation, and Widowhood on Life Satisfaction? A Longitudinal Test for Germany
The start and end of a romantic relationship are associated with substantial changes in life satisfaction. Yet, whether Big Five personality traits moderate these relationship transition effects is hardly known. Such knowledge helps to understand individual variation in relationship transition effects and provides the possibility to further test the stress and social support explanations of these effects. Our fixed effects regressions on 28 waves…
The Role of Math and Language Performance in Explaining the Gender Gap in STEM Major Choice. A Test for Germany
Across the globe, women choose science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors (STEM) less often than men. One frequently suggested explanation of this gender gap is that women perform less well in math and better in language than men in secondary school and have a comparative advantage in language. Studies for the Anglo-Saxon context have only found weak support for this school performance explanation due to small gender differences in …
Trends and Cross-National Differences in Educational Homogamy in Europe
The extent of educational homogamy has important consequences for social inequalities and social cohesion. However, little is known about current trends, cross-national differences, and the drivers of educational homogamy in Europe. This study aims to fill this gap by (a) describing trends in absolute educational homogamy (i.e., the share of similarly educated partners) and relative educational homogamy (i.e., homogamy corrected for the distribut…
Can Gender Stereotypes Explain the Gender‐Equality Paradox? A Reassessment
The social science literature surprisingly found that gender differences in the choice of and preference for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) study majors are larger in more gender‐equal and affluent countries. This phenomenon is known as the Gender‐Equality Paradox (GEP). Some scholars attributed GEP regarding students' mathematics intentions entirely to gender stereotypes, particularly the stereotype that “math is not fo…
Vibes over salary? How post-materialistic values shape teenagers’ STEM aspirations
Women’s underrepresentation in STEM fields tends to be more pronounced in affluent societies. We aim to advance literature by examining the extent to which this affluence paradox (AP) can be accounted for by post-materialistic values and whether they moderate the influence of household affluence on STEM aspirations. We argue that affluence fosters self-expression and gendered beliefs that channel men and women into different fields. Estimating mu…
Does Societal Affluence Increase the Gender Gap in STEM Graduation? A Longitudinal Assessment
Recent studies cast doubt on the assumption that national gender equality widens the gender gap in preferences and choices for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) majors, as posited by the Gender-Equality Paradox (GEP). Gender-equality effects do not show up within world regions, and the effects cannot be disentangled from other factors found to be higher in “the West.” However, the Affluence Paradox, which describes larger g…
Demographic economics (18 works) · Economics (18 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Labour economics (8 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (7 works) · Welfare (7 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (6 works)