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Welke stelselkenmerken van het Nederlandse onderwijs bevorderen het leren, verbeteren de voorbereiding op de arbeidsmarkt, en versterken de socialisatie tot zelfstandige burgers? Op 15 oktober heeft de ...

Welke stelselkenmerken van het Nederlandse onderwijs bevorderen het leren, verbeteren de voorbereiding op de arbeidsmarkt, en versterken de socialisatie tot zelfstandige burgers? Op 15 oktober 2015 presenteert een ...

What characteristics of the Dutch educational system improve learning, prepare for the labour market, and strengthen the participation of citizens in society? These issues will be addressed during a policy conference ...

The Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam have once again risen in the field ranking conducted by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai Ranking, advancing from 39th to ...

In recent years, income inequality has grown in many Western countries. In the United States, the wage gap is mainly caused by the growth in pay differentials between professions. Sociologist Thijs Bol has received a ...

Prof. Matthijs Kalmijn, professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and affiliate member of AMCIS, has been awarded the prestigious Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

Prof. B. Volker has been appointed professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.

Herman van de Werfhorst and Thijs Bol participate in this multidisciplinary research project that analyses varying visions on craftmanship and the relation to Intermediate Vocational Education.

Blog by Herman van de Werfhorst and Yossi Shavit. Herman van de Werfhorst is a professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, and director of the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies. Yossi Shavit is the ...

The mini-conference is part of the SASE conference in London, 2-4 July, 2015, and papers are welcome for this mini-conference. Note that the deadline is 26 January 2015.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Starting Grant to AMCIS member Dr Eelke Heemskerk for his project 'Corporate Network Governance: Power, Ownership and Control in Contemporary Global Capitalism'.

AMCIS researchers investigate to what degree cognitive peer characteristics are associated with citizenship knowledge and citizenship attitudes in primary education. Amidst worries about growing inequalities in ...

Thomas Piketty was invited by the Faculty of Economics and AMCIS for an interview on his new book 'Capital in the 21st Century'. To the audience he explained that true democracy starts with democratising knowledge ...

Piret Tõnurist (Tallinn University of Technology) and Dimitris Pavlopoulos (VU University Amsterdam) use insights from labour-market segmentation theory to investigate the wage differences between part-time and ...

Orhan Agirdag has won a Dutch Veni Grant for his research project on 'Educational inequality and language'. Pupils whose native language is not Dutch do worse at school than their native Dutch-speaking counterparts. ...

De Jaarprijs Politicologie wordt ieder jaar op het etmaal uitgereikt voor het beste politicologisch proefschrift dat is verdedigd in Nederland of Vlaanderen in het voorgaande jaar, of door een Nederlandse of Vlaamse ...

During the Education Research Days Sociologist Thijs Bol won the VOR-VFO thesis award. Bol analysed the relation between educational level and chances on the labourmarket.

The Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies AMCIS and the Netherlands’ Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute NIDI have signed an agreement to further strengthen their scientific collaboration. The agreement embeds ...

This new Working Paper analyses the employment participation and occupational status of Moroccan and Turkish Second Generation Migrants in the Netherlands. Results show important ethnic differences in how family ...

In this conference we aim to bring together scientists from different social sciences, including sociology, economics and education, to present and discuss work on how characteristics of educational systems are ...