"Marriage
Patterns and the Openness of Society", Presentation at the Meeting of the Research Committee on Social
Stratification and Mobility of the International Sociological Association,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 17-18, 1983.
"Intergenerational
Mobility, Individual Political Preferences and Electoral Outcomes",
Presentation at the Meeting of the
Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility of the
International Sociological Association, Berkely, USA, August 12-15, 1987.
"Educational
Homogamy and Class Mobility in Industrial Nations", Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological
Association, Chicago, USA, August 17-21, 1987.
"From
unemployment to unemployment, from employment to employment?" Presentation
at the Meeting of the Research Committee
on Social Stratification and Mobility of the International Sociological
Association, Nuremberg, Germany, April 22-25, 1987
"Chained
to Unemployment, Chained to Employment?", Presentation at the Meeting of the Research Committee on Social
Stratification and Mobility of the International Sociological Association,
Haifa, Israel, April 25-28, 1988.
"Does the
difference between employment and unemployment constitute a social
division?" Presentation at the meeting of the Research Committee Poverty and Social Welfare of the International
Sociological Association, Hässelby Slott, Stockholm, Sweden, August 1988.
"Increased
Economic Integration, Stronger Social Stratification? Proposing New Convergence
Hypotheses", Presentation at the Meeting
of the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy of
the International Sociological Association, Bergen, Norway, August 24-27, 1989,
and at the Conference Progress in
Economic, Social and Political Sciences on the occasion of the 30th
anniversary of the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences of the
Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, October 26-27, 1989.
"European
Integration and Social Inequalities in Cultural Participation",
Presentation at the European Research Conference on European Society or European Societies? Organized by the European
Science Foundation, Gausdal, Norway, November 22-26, 1991.
"Cultural
Inequalities in Cross-National Perspective. A Secondary Analysis of Survey Data
for the 1970s and 1980s". Presentation at the Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility of the
International Sociological Association, University of Trento, Italy, May 14-16,
1992.
"The
Extension of the European Market and Social Security: the Dutch Example".
Presentation at the conference From
European societies to European society: the national welfare states and
european integration, organized by the European Science Foundation and the
European Consortium of Sociological Research in St. Martin (Pfaltz), Germany,
November 22-26, 1992
"Do
rational choice approaches have problems?" Presentation at the Conference on rational choice theory and the
statistical analysis of large data sets, organized by prof. Hans-Peter Blossfeld
of the University of Bremen, Bremen, March 21-23, 1996.
"Issues in
the analysis of social mobility and intermarriage". Presentation at the Conference on Statistical Issues in
Sociology, organized by Sir David Cox, Nuffield College, Oxford, November
14-16, 1996
The Shadow of a Hand. Jewish-Gentile marriages
and Jewish suicides in the Netherlands 1936-1943. Conferentie Inequality in
immigrant and multi-ethic societies of the Research Committee on Social
Stratification and Mobility of the International Sociological Association,
Tel Aviv, May 18-20, 1997.
"Inequalities
in the Netherlands since the 1980s: Is there a New Dutch Model?"
Presentation on invitation at the Mannheim
Zentrum für Europaischer Sozialforschung, February 9, 1998
"Jewish-Gentile
Intermarriage in Six European Cities 1900-1940", Presentation on
invitation at the Department of Sociology and Antropology, University of Haifa, May 7, 1998
"The
Unwholesome Theme of Suicide" Attempted Suicides in Amsterdam, Jewish
Suicide in the Netherlands, Forgotten statistics for 1936-1944", paper
presented at the Eighth International
Symposium on the History of the Jews in the Netherlands, Hebrew University,
Jerusalem, November 24, 1998
‘Jewish
Persecution in the Netherlands during Wolrd War 2’, presentation on invitation
by prof. K.U. Mayer at the Max Planck Institute for Bildungsforschung in
Berlin, February 12, 1999.
‘Do High
Unemployment Rates at Labour Market Entry Make For Permanent Scars on
Occupational Careers? The Netherlands 1950-2000’, paper presented at the
meeting of the Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility of
the International Sociological Association at the University of Mannheim, April
26-28, 2002.
‘Level and Field of Education’’, Presentation
on invitation by prof. H. Hummell at the Sociology Colloquium Neue
Arbeitsgesellschaft und soziale Integration, Gerhard-Mercator Universität,
Duisburg, June 24, 2001.
‘Is íntegrating theory and research that much
of a difficulty in RC28 or are there more pressing matters?’, paper presented
at the meeting of the Research Comitteee on Social stratification and
Mobility of the International Sociological Association in Nuffield College,
Oxford, April 10-13, 2002.