About this role
Postdoc The roles of siblings and school peers in young adults' life events Post-doc Researcher Postdoc The roles of siblings and school peers in young adults' life events The Postdoc researcher will work in the project 'The roles of siblings and school peers in young adults' life-course events', led by Principal Investigator Clara H. Mulder and funded by an Open Competition Large grant from the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO). Postdoc The roles of siblings and school peers in young adults' life events https://werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/postdoc-the-roles-of-siblings-and-school-peers-in-young-adults-life-events-2530 / What are you going to do?
The Postdoc researcher will work in the project 'The roles of siblings and school peers in young adults' life-course events', led by Principal Investigator Clara H. Mulder and funded by an Open Competition Large grant from the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO). The research team further includes a PhD researcher, an assistant professor who co-supervises the PhD project, and collaborators from the University of Groningen and Statistics Netherlands (CBS). In the project, we aim to identify the roles of siblings and school peers in the occurrence, timing, and outcomes of important life-course events in young adulthood.
The events are leaving the parental home and returning home, residential relocations, entry into and exit from post-secondary education, and entry to the labour market. We investigate differentiation in sibling and school-peer roles with regard to advantage versus disadvantage, gender, migrant background, age, and time period. We use register data covering the entire population of young adults in the Netherlands, including family and school-peer network data, and analyse these data with advanced statistical methods. The envisaged role of the Postdoc researcher will be to work on life-course transitions with regard to education and the labour market, to collaborate with the other ...