Frank van Tubergen

Publications (50) View all

• Source

  Available from: Frank van Tubergen

  Article: Ethnic Discrimination in Recruitment and Decision Makers' Features: Evidence from Laboratory Experiment and Survey Data using a Student Sample Soc Indic Res

  Lieselotte Blommaert, Marcel Coenders, Frank Van Tubergen
  [show abstract] [hide abstract]
  ABSTRACT: This article examines which individual-level factors are related to people's likelihood of discriminating against ethnic minority job applicants. It moves beyond describing to what extent discrimination occurs by examining the role of individuals' interethnic contacts, education and religion in shaping their behavior towards ethnic minority job applicants. We derive expectations from theories from the interethnic atti-tudes literature. Data are collected via (1) a laboratory experiment in which student par-ticipants (n = 272) reviewed résumés of fictitious applicants who varied regarding ethnicity, gender, education and work experience and (2) a survey amongst the same participants. During the experiment, participants assess applicants' suitability for a job and select applicants for an interview. Additionally, participants complete a questionnaire including questions on several personal and background features. Results show that indi-viduals who have more positive interethnic contacts, higher educational levels and higher educated parents are less likely to discriminate against ethnic minority applicants. Indi-viduals whose parents are church members are more likely to discriminate, as are males. We find interesting differences regarding the role of decision makers' features between different stages of the recruitment process. First assessments of applicants' suitability for a job are predominantly affected by applicants' features. Differences between decision makers here are relatively small. Eventual choices about which applicants to invite for a job interview, however, are affected by both applicants' and decision makers' features; here differences between decision makers are more pronounced. Theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.
  Social Indicators Research 04/2013; · 1.13 Impact Factor
• Source

  Available from: Frank van Tubergen

  Article: Size and socio-economic resources of core discussion networks in the Netherlands: differences by national-origin group and immigrant generation

  Frank Van Tubergen
  [show abstract] [hide abstract]
  ABSTRACT: This study examines differences in the size and socio-economic resources of core discussion networks across national-origin groups and immigrant generation. The analysis is based on the Netherlands Longitudinal Lifecourse Study (2008Á10), a nationally representative, large-scale survey of the Dutch population that contains an over-sample of first-and second-generation immigrants from Turkey and Morocco, the two largest non-western immigrant groups in the Netherlands. Results show that Dutch majority members have larger and more resourceful core discussion networks than Turks and Moroccans. Second-generation immigrants from Turkey and Morocco have larger core discussion networks than their foreign-born parents. However, there is no clear evidence for intergenerational increase in resources. The larger and more resourceful core discussion networks of the Dutch are partly attributable to the Dutch being higher educated and employed more often.
  Ethnic and Racial Studies 01/2013; · 1.00 Impact Factor
• Source

  Available from: Frank van Tubergen

  Article: Is There an Oppositional Culture Among Immigrant Adolescents in the Netherlands?

  Frank van Tubergen, Milou van Gaans
  Youth &amp Society 01/2013; · 1.82 Impact Factor
• Source

  Available from: Frank van Tubergen

  Article: Religion as Reassurance? Testing the Insecurity Theory in 26 European Countries

  Tim Immerzeel, Frank Van Tubergen
  [show abstract] [hide abstract]
  ABSTRACT: In this article, we extend insecurity theory by examining the influence of various kinds of insecurities on religiosity. Religiosity is operationalized in terms of a public dimension (church attendance) and a private dimension (subjective religiosity). Using data from four rounds of the European Social Survey (ESS, 2002–2008) on 26 European countries, we find strong support for the main hypothesis of insecurity theory that higher levels of insecurity are associated with increasing religiosity. Furthermore, it appears that all kinds of insecurities play a role. Specifically, we find, among others, that religiosity is higher among people who have an insecure job position, whose parents were unemployed, whose parents had a lower status job, who have experienced a war in their own country, who have lost their partner, and who reside in a country with lower social welfare spending and a higher unemployment rate. On a more general level, it is concluded that both (i) economic and existential; (ii) past and present; and (iii) individual and contextual insecurities are important in explaining (cross-national) variation in religiosity.
  European Sociological Review 01/2013; · 1.93 Impact Factor
• Source

  Available from: Frank van Tubergen

  Article: Religious change of new immigrants in the Netherlands: The event of migration

  Frank Van Tubergen
  [show abstract] [hide abstract]
  ABSTRACT: Using data on recently arrived immigrants in the Netherlands, I study the role of migration in religious attendance and praying. For the majority of immigrants, the frequency of reli-gious attendance and praying remains the same after migration, but a substantial group shows religious decline. I observe this drop of religiousness for both attendance and pray-ing, but the drop is much more pronounced for attendance. Whereas 40% participate less often in Holland than before migrating, frequency of praying dropped among 17% only. The degree of religious continuity and decline differs dramatically across immigrant groups. Conditional upon pre-migration religiousness, I find that the ''older'', well-estab-lished and numerically larger migrant groups of Turks, Moroccans, Surinamese and Antil-leans more frequently attend religious meetings and pray than the ''new'' and smaller groups of Poles and Bulgarians. Religious continuity and decline seem less dependent on individual experiences.
  Social Science Research 01/2013; · 1.27 Impact Factor