VANDECASTEELE, Leen

Max Weber Fellow 2011-2012

Email Leen.Vandecasteele@EUI.eu   
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 688
Office VF 26

European University Institute
Max Weber Programme
Via delle Fontanelle 10
I-50014 San Domenico

Departmental affiliation: Political and Social Sciences  
Mentor: Fabrizio Bernardi 

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My research interests are in social stratification, labour market inequality and poverty in a life course perspective. I am particularly interested in the study of cumulative disadvantage over the life course, gender inequality in the labour market and life events associated with poverty. My work is comparative, looking at different welfare regimes in Europe.

My work is based on the analysis of large-scale household panel datasets. To ensure the robustness of my substantive findings, I engage in careful study of methodological aspects of survey data. My methodological research has focused on survey non-response and attrition patterns as well as the measurement of income poverty and annual household income in longitudinal cross-national household panel surveys.

Prior to joining the European University Institute as a Max Weber Fellow I was a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Cathie Marsh Centre of Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester. There I taught an M.Sc. course on Advanced Survey Methods.

In my doctoral thesis, which I obtained from the Catholic University of Leuven, I studied the dynamic aspect of poverty and its implications for our understanding of social stratification.