Hans Schmeets
Biographic Data
| ID | 81400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans Schmeets |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmeets |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMEETS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8511-723X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Social Networks and Social Cohesion in the Netherlands
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has recently developed the whole population network (Person Network) file, based on administrative microdata, which includes over a billion interpersonal relationships among approximately 17 million inhabitants of the Netherlands, spanning each year from 2009 onward. Additionally, over the past decade, CBS has conducted the annual Social Cohesion and Well-being (SSW) survey, gathering responses from 83,667 representat…
Culture and cross-border commuting
Using unique administrative data on historical dialects, we estimate the effect of cultural dissimilarity on cross-border commuting flows from the Dutch-speaking regions of Belgium (i.e. Flanders and Brussels) to the Netherlands. The results show that economic drivers, specifically the cost of commuting measured by the geographical distance, remain the most important factor defining the distribution of workers across the national borders of Belgi…
Does Residential Context Matter? Neighborhood Migrant Concentration and Citizenship Acquisition in the Netherlands
Existing studies analyzing the relation between immigrants’ residential environment and their propensity to naturalize produce contradictory findings. These results are difficult to interpret, as studies typically do not measure residential characteristics at a sufficiently fine-grained scale to test hypotheses about social networks and naturalization, do not model the data's multi-level structure appropriately, and do not account for selection i…
Citizenship acquisition and spatial stratification
Whereas the so-called ‘citizenship premium’ in the labour market has been widely studied, we know little about how naturalisation affects immigrants’ lives beyond work and income. Focusing on the Netherlands, this paper analyses the relationship between citizenship acquisition and immigrant residential mobility, in particular the propensity of immigrants to move away from areas with high concentrations of migrants. We draw on register data from S…
The Impact of Social Capital on Organ Donation
On the move again? Residential trajectories of refugees after obtaining asylum in the Netherlands
Efforts by European countries to disperse refugees across the country often implicitly presuppose permanent settlement in dispersal locations. Migrant (re)settlement theories, however, suggest that onward mobility after (social) housing allocation is a more likely outcome. This paper explores refugees' onward residential trajectories after dispersal in the Netherlands, including possible onward international mobility. We follow refugees who enter…
Naturalisation and Immigrant Earnings
The notion that naturalisation matters for the economic integration of immigrants is well established in the literature, but why and to whom that is, remains surprisingly ambiguous. The citizenship premium is traditionally assumed to result from increased labour market access and positive signalling towards employers, but these mechanisms fail to explain increased earnings derived from paid employment, which has been the predominant focus in most…
A ticket to mobility? Naturalisation and subsequent migration of refugees after obtaining asylum in the Netherlands
Research on migrants to European countries commonly assumes that with naturalisation, migrants’ futures are closely linked to the receiving country. However, from a transnational perspective, citizenship acquisition does not necessarily lead to permanent settlement. Apart from the right to stay in the country, citizenship provides for extensive mobility rights and the freedom to settle elsewhere. This mobility premium may be particularly acute fo…
Double standards? Attitudes towards immigrant and emigrant dual citizenship in the Netherlands
Despite increasingly liberal practices around the world, dual citizenship acceptance is still contested. Surprisingly, few studies exist on what drives public attitudes towards political membership in two or more states. Based on data from the 2012 Dutch Parliamentary Election Study (N = 1,677) we investigate the discrepancy in negative attitudes in the Netherlands towards dual citizenship of immigrants who acquire Dutch citizenship, on the one h…
How World Bank Governance Indicators May Predict the Assessment of Elections by International Observers
This paper outlines election monitoring in the OSCE-region, focusing on the analyses and interpretation of the aggregated findings of over 28,000 international election observers producing over 170,000 election observer report forms in 97 elections. Based on 86 elections, to which at least 100 observers were deployed, this paper reveals that: (1) the observers’ overall assessments of the voting and counting processes are strongly correlated; (2) …
Conventional and unconventional political participation in times of financial crisis in the Netherlands, 2002–2012
Anticipating the citizenship premium
Can citizenship improve the economic integration of immigrants, and if so, how? Scholars traditionally understand a citizenship premium in the labour market, besides access to restricted jobs, as the result of a positive signal of naturalisation towards employers. While we do not discard these mechanisms, we argue that explanations should also take into account that migrants anticipate rewards and opportunities of naturalisation by investing in t…
Sampling immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany
This paper discusses the limitations of harmonised sampling designs for survey research on immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands. Although the concepts for immigrants are largely similar in both countries, there are severe constraints when it comes to comparable sampling designs. While in the Netherlands a sample can be drawn from a national population register by Statistics Netherlands, this is impossible in Germany due to the decentralised …
Estimating Homelessness in the Netherlands Using a Capture-Recapture Approach
The ecology of immigrant naturalisation
Traditionally, immigrants’ propensity to naturalize is attributed to individual characteristics and the origin country. Recently scholars increasingly recognise that naturalisation decisions do not take place in a vacuum: they are conditioned both by the individual life course of immigrants, such as the age at migration and family situation, as well as the opportunity structure set by citizenship policies of the destination country. Yet it is les…
Is international election observation credible? Evidence from Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe missions
While international election observations missions often aim to present generalizable claims about the quality and integrity of an election, their findings are rarely based on a representative sample of observations, undermining the credibility of the missions. Bias in the selection of polling stations, among other things, can inflate or deflate the percentage of polling stations where observers find significant flaws. This article uses original …
The Socially Excluded in the Netherlands
Declining Social Cohesion in The Netherlands
Does International Election Observation Deter and Detect Fraud? Evidence From Russia
It is widely taken for granted that international election observation deters and detects election fraud, but little evidence exists that supports this conventional wisdom. This article employs a unique dataset on the 2011 and 2012 election observation missions by the osce to the legislative and presidential elections in russia, to assess the claim that international election observation deters and detects fraud. The findings suggest that observe…
Developing a Social Capital Index for the Netherlands
Increasing Response Rates and the Consequences in the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study 2006
This article deals with specific measures to enhance response rates in the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study (DPES) conducted around the elections on November 22, 2006. It demonstrates that a specific fieldwork strategy, including new advance letters, incentives, interviewer training sessions, and a reapproach of noncontacts and refusals, resulted in a response rate of 72% (first wave) and 64% (second wave). Moreover, the distributions of party …
Impact of Prepaid Incentives in Face-to-Face Surveys
Nonresponse is a general problem in survey research. Although response rates and the nonresponse trends differ between countries, the general trend is that response rates have been declining over the years A high nonresponse rate is a problem as it reduces the number of respondents and consequently the precision of estimates. In addition, nonresponse can be selective. This occurs when nonrespondents differ systematically from respondents as to th…
Collecting Data among Ethnic Minorities in an International Perspective
This article examines strategies to reduce nonresponse rates among ethnic minorities. The authors review nonresponse rates and data collection strategies among ethnic minorities with respect to response rates and response bias in six European countries. The national statistical institutes of these six countries use different definitions of ethnic minorities. This is why the definitions of ethnic minorities and their impact on the number of member…
Survey Data Collection Methodology for Election Missions
The present case study discusses some difficulties in applying survey methodology to the observation of elections by international observers. In election missions data collected through observation forms should justify general statements on the freedom and the fairness of the election observed. The paper focuses on observations of the voting during visits to polling stations and the observation forms used to collect the information gained in thes…
Fortress Holland? Support for ethnocentric policies among the 1994-electorate of The Netherlands
n Contains fulltext :\n 3362.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
The ecology of immigrant naturalisation
Traditionally, immigrants’ propensity to naturalize is attributed to individual characteristics and the origin country. Recently scholars increasingly recognise that naturalisation decisions do not take place in a vacuum: they are conditioned both by the individual life course of immigrants, such as the age at migration and family situation, as well as the opportunity structure set by citizenship policies of the destination country. Yet it is les…
Anticipating the citizenship premium
Can citizenship improve the economic integration of immigrants, and if so, how? Scholars traditionally understand a citizenship premium in the labour market, besides access to restricted jobs, as the result of a positive signal of naturalisation towards employers. While we do not discard these mechanisms, we argue that explanations should also take into account that migrants anticipate rewards and opportunities of naturalisation by investing in t…
A ticket to mobility? Naturalisation and subsequent migration of refugees after obtaining asylum in the Netherlands
Research on migrants to European countries commonly assumes that with naturalisation, migrants’ futures are closely linked to the receiving country. However, from a transnational perspective, citizenship acquisition does not necessarily lead to permanent settlement. Apart from the right to stay in the country, citizenship provides for extensive mobility rights and the freedom to settle elsewhere. This mobility premium may be particularly acute fo…
Collecting Data among Ethnic Minorities in an International Perspective
This article examines strategies to reduce nonresponse rates among ethnic minorities. The authors review nonresponse rates and data collection strategies among ethnic minorities with respect to response rates and response bias in six European countries. The national statistical institutes of these six countries use different definitions of ethnic minorities. This is why the definitions of ethnic minorities and their impact on the number of member…
On the move again? Residential trajectories of refugees after obtaining asylum in the Netherlands
Efforts by European countries to disperse refugees across the country often implicitly presuppose permanent settlement in dispersal locations. Migrant (re)settlement theories, however, suggest that onward mobility after (social) housing allocation is a more likely outcome. This paper explores refugees' onward residential trajectories after dispersal in the Netherlands, including possible onward international mobility. We follow refugees who enter…
Declining Social Cohesion in The Netherlands
Naturalisation and Immigrant Earnings
The notion that naturalisation matters for the economic integration of immigrants is well established in the literature, but why and to whom that is, remains surprisingly ambiguous. The citizenship premium is traditionally assumed to result from increased labour market access and positive signalling towards employers, but these mechanisms fail to explain increased earnings derived from paid employment, which has been the predominant focus in most…
Double standards? Attitudes towards immigrant and emigrant dual citizenship in the Netherlands
Despite increasingly liberal practices around the world, dual citizenship acceptance is still contested. Surprisingly, few studies exist on what drives public attitudes towards political membership in two or more states. Based on data from the 2012 Dutch Parliamentary Election Study (N = 1,677) we investigate the discrepancy in negative attitudes in the Netherlands towards dual citizenship of immigrants who acquire Dutch citizenship, on the one h…
Developing a Social Capital Index for the Netherlands
Sampling immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany
This paper discusses the limitations of harmonised sampling designs for survey research on immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands. Although the concepts for immigrants are largely similar in both countries, there are severe constraints when it comes to comparable sampling designs. While in the Netherlands a sample can be drawn from a national population register by Statistics Netherlands, this is impossible in Germany due to the decentralised …
Estimating Homelessness in the Netherlands Using a Capture-Recapture Approach
The Socially Excluded in the Netherlands
Impact of Prepaid Incentives in Face-to-Face Surveys
Nonresponse is a general problem in survey research. Although response rates and the nonresponse trends differ between countries, the general trend is that response rates have been declining over the years A high nonresponse rate is a problem as it reduces the number of respondents and consequently the precision of estimates. In addition, nonresponse can be selective. This occurs when nonrespondents differ systematically from respondents as to th…
Is international election observation credible? Evidence from Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe missions
While international election observations missions often aim to present generalizable claims about the quality and integrity of an election, their findings are rarely based on a representative sample of observations, undermining the credibility of the missions. Bias in the selection of polling stations, among other things, can inflate or deflate the percentage of polling stations where observers find significant flaws. This article uses original …
Fortress Holland? Support for ethnocentric policies among the 1994-electorate of The Netherlands
n Contains fulltext :\n 3362.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
Does Residential Context Matter? Neighborhood Migrant Concentration and Citizenship Acquisition in the Netherlands
Existing studies analyzing the relation between immigrants’ residential environment and their propensity to naturalize produce contradictory findings. These results are difficult to interpret, as studies typically do not measure residential characteristics at a sufficiently fine-grained scale to test hypotheses about social networks and naturalization, do not model the data's multi-level structure appropriately, and do not account for selection i…
Citizenship acquisition and spatial stratification
Whereas the so-called ‘citizenship premium’ in the labour market has been widely studied, we know little about how naturalisation affects immigrants’ lives beyond work and income. Focusing on the Netherlands, this paper analyses the relationship between citizenship acquisition and immigrant residential mobility, in particular the propensity of immigrants to move away from areas with high concentrations of migrants. We draw on register data from S…
Conventional and unconventional political participation in times of financial crisis in the Netherlands, 2002–2012
Does International Election Observation Deter and Detect Fraud? Evidence From Russia
It is widely taken for granted that international election observation deters and detects election fraud, but little evidence exists that supports this conventional wisdom. This article employs a unique dataset on the 2011 and 2012 election observation missions by the osce to the legislative and presidential elections in russia, to assess the claim that international election observation deters and detects fraud. The findings suggest that observe…
Increasing Response Rates and the Consequences in the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study 2006
This article deals with specific measures to enhance response rates in the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study (DPES) conducted around the elections on November 22, 2006. It demonstrates that a specific fieldwork strategy, including new advance letters, incentives, interviewer training sessions, and a reapproach of noncontacts and refusals, resulted in a response rate of 72% (first wave) and 64% (second wave). Moreover, the distributions of party …
Fortress Holland? Support for ethnocentric policies among the 1994-electorate of The Netherlands
n Contains fulltext :\n 3362.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
Survey Data Collection Methodology for Election Missions
The present case study discusses some difficulties in applying survey methodology to the observation of elections by international observers. In election missions data collected through observation forms should justify general statements on the freedom and the fairness of the election observed. The paper focuses on observations of the voting during visits to polling stations and the observation forms used to collect the information gained in thes…
Collecting Data among Ethnic Minorities in an International Perspective
This article examines strategies to reduce nonresponse rates among ethnic minorities. The authors review nonresponse rates and data collection strategies among ethnic minorities with respect to response rates and response bias in six European countries. The national statistical institutes of these six countries use different definitions of ethnic minorities. This is why the definitions of ethnic minorities and their impact on the number of member…
Impact of Prepaid Incentives in Face-to-Face Surveys
Nonresponse is a general problem in survey research. Although response rates and the nonresponse trends differ between countries, the general trend is that response rates have been declining over the years A high nonresponse rate is a problem as it reduces the number of respondents and consequently the precision of estimates. In addition, nonresponse can be selective. This occurs when nonrespondents differ systematically from respondents as to th…
Increasing Response Rates and the Consequences in the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study 2006
This article deals with specific measures to enhance response rates in the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study (DPES) conducted around the elections on November 22, 2006. It demonstrates that a specific fieldwork strategy, including new advance letters, incentives, interviewer training sessions, and a reapproach of noncontacts and refusals, resulted in a response rate of 72% (first wave) and 64% (second wave). Moreover, the distributions of party …
Developing a Social Capital Index for the Netherlands
Does International Election Observation Deter and Detect Fraud? Evidence From Russia
It is widely taken for granted that international election observation deters and detects election fraud, but little evidence exists that supports this conventional wisdom. This article employs a unique dataset on the 2011 and 2012 election observation missions by the osce to the legislative and presidential elections in russia, to assess the claim that international election observation deters and detects fraud. The findings suggest that observe…
Is international election observation credible? Evidence from Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe missions
While international election observations missions often aim to present generalizable claims about the quality and integrity of an election, their findings are rarely based on a representative sample of observations, undermining the credibility of the missions. Bias in the selection of polling stations, among other things, can inflate or deflate the percentage of polling stations where observers find significant flaws. This article uses original …
The Socially Excluded in the Netherlands
Declining Social Cohesion in The Netherlands
The ecology of immigrant naturalisation
Traditionally, immigrants’ propensity to naturalize is attributed to individual characteristics and the origin country. Recently scholars increasingly recognise that naturalisation decisions do not take place in a vacuum: they are conditioned both by the individual life course of immigrants, such as the age at migration and family situation, as well as the opportunity structure set by citizenship policies of the destination country. Yet it is les…
Sampling immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany
This paper discusses the limitations of harmonised sampling designs for survey research on immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands. Although the concepts for immigrants are largely similar in both countries, there are severe constraints when it comes to comparable sampling designs. While in the Netherlands a sample can be drawn from a national population register by Statistics Netherlands, this is impossible in Germany due to the decentralised …
Estimating Homelessness in the Netherlands Using a Capture-Recapture Approach
How World Bank Governance Indicators May Predict the Assessment of Elections by International Observers
This paper outlines election monitoring in the OSCE-region, focusing on the analyses and interpretation of the aggregated findings of over 28,000 international election observers producing over 170,000 election observer report forms in 97 elections. Based on 86 elections, to which at least 100 observers were deployed, this paper reveals that: (1) the observers’ overall assessments of the voting and counting processes are strongly correlated; (2) …
Conventional and unconventional political participation in times of financial crisis in the Netherlands, 2002–2012
Anticipating the citizenship premium
Can citizenship improve the economic integration of immigrants, and if so, how? Scholars traditionally understand a citizenship premium in the labour market, besides access to restricted jobs, as the result of a positive signal of naturalisation towards employers. While we do not discard these mechanisms, we argue that explanations should also take into account that migrants anticipate rewards and opportunities of naturalisation by investing in t…
Double standards? Attitudes towards immigrant and emigrant dual citizenship in the Netherlands
Despite increasingly liberal practices around the world, dual citizenship acceptance is still contested. Surprisingly, few studies exist on what drives public attitudes towards political membership in two or more states. Based on data from the 2012 Dutch Parliamentary Election Study (N = 1,677) we investigate the discrepancy in negative attitudes in the Netherlands towards dual citizenship of immigrants who acquire Dutch citizenship, on the one h…
On the move again? Residential trajectories of refugees after obtaining asylum in the Netherlands
Efforts by European countries to disperse refugees across the country often implicitly presuppose permanent settlement in dispersal locations. Migrant (re)settlement theories, however, suggest that onward mobility after (social) housing allocation is a more likely outcome. This paper explores refugees' onward residential trajectories after dispersal in the Netherlands, including possible onward international mobility. We follow refugees who enter…
Naturalisation and Immigrant Earnings
The notion that naturalisation matters for the economic integration of immigrants is well established in the literature, but why and to whom that is, remains surprisingly ambiguous. The citizenship premium is traditionally assumed to result from increased labour market access and positive signalling towards employers, but these mechanisms fail to explain increased earnings derived from paid employment, which has been the predominant focus in most…
A ticket to mobility? Naturalisation and subsequent migration of refugees after obtaining asylum in the Netherlands
Research on migrants to European countries commonly assumes that with naturalisation, migrants’ futures are closely linked to the receiving country. However, from a transnational perspective, citizenship acquisition does not necessarily lead to permanent settlement. Apart from the right to stay in the country, citizenship provides for extensive mobility rights and the freedom to settle elsewhere. This mobility premium may be particularly acute fo…
The Impact of Social Capital on Organ Donation
Citizenship acquisition and spatial stratification
Whereas the so-called ‘citizenship premium’ in the labour market has been widely studied, we know little about how naturalisation affects immigrants’ lives beyond work and income. Focusing on the Netherlands, this paper analyses the relationship between citizenship acquisition and immigrant residential mobility, in particular the propensity of immigrants to move away from areas with high concentrations of migrants. We draw on register data from S…
Does Residential Context Matter? Neighborhood Migrant Concentration and Citizenship Acquisition in the Netherlands
Existing studies analyzing the relation between immigrants’ residential environment and their propensity to naturalize produce contradictory findings. These results are difficult to interpret, as studies typically do not measure residential characteristics at a sufficiently fine-grained scale to test hypotheses about social networks and naturalization, do not model the data's multi-level structure appropriately, and do not account for selection i…
Social Networks and Social Cohesion in the Netherlands
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) has recently developed the whole population network (Person Network) file, based on administrative microdata, which includes over a billion interpersonal relationships among approximately 17 million inhabitants of the Netherlands, spanning each year from 2009 onward. Additionally, over the past decade, CBS has conducted the annual Social Cohesion and Well-being (SSW) survey, gathering responses from 83,667 representat…
Culture and cross-border commuting
Using unique administrative data on historical dialects, we estimate the effect of cultural dissimilarity on cross-border commuting flows from the Dutch-speaking regions of Belgium (i.e. Flanders and Brussels) to the Netherlands. The results show that economic drivers, specifically the cost of commuting measured by the geographical distance, remain the most important factor defining the distribution of workers across the national borders of Belgi…
Political science (18 works) · Economics (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Immigration (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (8 works)