ACHOUCHE, Noa

Chercheuse rattachée à l'IDHE.S
Docteure en sociologie

Contact

Sociology of work,
sociology of professions,
sociology of elites,
organizational culture,
life-course research,
welfare policy,
gender inequality,
motherhood penalty,
migration, ethnicity,
quantitative research methods.

Position Held

2025 – Postdoctoral Fellow, Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Économie et de la Société (IDHE.S), Paris-Nanterre University.

Project: ANR DIRIVA – Gender and Ethnic Representation in Corporate Leadership. Supervisor: Prof. Valérie Boussard
 

2024 – current: Research affiliate, Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Économie et de la Société (IDHES), Paris Nanterre University.
 

2023 – current: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Haifa, Israel.

"Gendered life course & inequality in old age", Tel-Aviv University, PI: Prof. Haya Stier, Tel-Aviv University and Prof. Alisa Lewin, University of Haifa
 

2022 – 2023: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economy, University of Haifa, Israel.

“Women in Non-Standard Employment in Israel” Haifa University, Post- Doctoral Fellowship in Economy. PI: Prof. Vered Kraus, and Prof. Benjamin Bental, University of Haifa
 

2021 – 2022: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Gender Studies dept., Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

“Effect of employment of Youth on latter life outcomes" Israel Science Foundation, P.I.: Dr. Anat Herbst-Debby, Bar-Ilan University, and Dr. Amit Kaplan, Academic College of Tel-Aviv Jaffa.
 

2018 – 2019: Guest Researcher: The Centre de Recherche sur les Inégalités Sociales (CRIS), Sciences-Po Paris, France.

Teaching Experience

2022 – current: Tutor in " Culture and Organization "(B.A level), Open University in Israel. 
2022 – current: Tutor in "Democracy and Feminism" (M.A level), Open University in Israel.
2023 – 2024: TA, Quantitative Research Methods Application “Poverty and welfare policy" (B.A level), University of Haifa.

2021. Ph.D., Tel Aviv University Labor Studies
Dissertation title: "Motherhood Penalty, Immigration, and Region of Origin - The Case of France: Comparing the relative Motherhood Penalty of immigrants from Europe, Maghreb and Sub-Sahara with French native women."
Supervisor: Prof. Haya Stier
Committee: Prof. Anastasia Gorodzeisky and Dr. Asaf Levanon

2014. M.A., Tel Aviv University (Magna Cum Laude)

Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
Title of Master’s Thesis: "The Impact of Motherhood on Immigration: A Comparative Study of Different Ethnic Groups of Women in the United States".
Names of supervisors: Prof. Moshe Semyonov and Prof. Hadas Mandel.

2010. B.A.,  The Academic College of Management, Rishon LeZion
Department of Business and Communication

2025 Laureate, Prix Margaret Maruani – Bourses de recherche de la Ville de Paris
For the project “Women Engineers: Diverging Career Paths and the Unfinished Restructuring of Gender Hierarchies” Université Paris Nanterre. €10,000 award

2025-2027 IERDJ Research Grant: Project: “Hiérarchies genrées et inégalités intra-genre dans la profession d’avocat – Une analyse socioéconomique” Funded by the Institute for Legal Research (IERDJ), French Ministry of Justice. Principal Investigator, in collaboration with S. Harnay (Co-PI). €31,005

2018-2019 Science-Po, Visiting Grant research at the Centre de Recherche sur les Inegalites Sociales (CRIS formerly OSC), Sciences-Po Paris. €5000
 

 

"The cost of origin: the motherhood penalty among second-generation immigrants in France", 2024, The scientific seminar of Labor Studies, Tel-Aviv University.
"Motherhood Penalty, Immigration, and Region of Origin - The Case of France", 2022, The Institute for Immigration and Social Integration, Ruppin Academic Center
"Motherhood Penalty, Immigration, and Ethnicity", 2019, The scientific seminar of the CRIS (Centre de Recherche sur les inegalites sociales) Sciences-Po, Paris.
 

2023. Stier, H., Lewin, A., and Achouche, N., "Gender Inequality in Pension Income: Does divorce matter?", Presented at 21st annual conference of the Europe Divorce Network, Utrecht, 2023.
2023. Achouche, N. and Stier, H., "The cost of origin: the price of motherhood among second generation immigrants in France", Presented at the 2023 ISA RC28 Spring Meeting, Sciences-Po Paris, May 24-26, 2022.
2022. Herbst-Debby, A., Kaplan, A., Endelweld, M., and Achouche, N., "Stratification in action: The relationship between adolescent employment and higher educational attainment". Presented at the 2022 ISA RC28 Spring Meeting, LSE, April 21-23, 2022.
2022. Herbst-Debby, A., Kaplan, A., Endelweld, M., and Achouche, N., "The Third Breadwinner: Adolescent Employment, Parental Divorce, Gender, and Family Income”, Presented at the workshop in Stratification and inequality", Tel Aviv, January 6th - Online Event.
2021. Herbst-Debby, A., Kaplan, A., Endelweld, M., and Achouche, N., "When Adolescents Take Financial Care of the Family: Adolescent Employment, Parental Marital Status, Gender and Household Income", Presented at Transforming Care Conference 2021, June 24th -26th. 2021 Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - Online Event.
2016 Achouche, N., “The Impact of Motherhood on Immigration: A Comparative Study of Different Ethnic Groups of Women in the United States,” Presented at the 4th Ruppin International Conference on Immigration & Social Integration, Ruppin Academic Center, Israel.

Achouche, N. (2022). The Motherhood Penalty of Immigrants in France: Comparing the Motherhood Wage Penalty of Immigrants from Europe, the Maghreb, and Sub-Sahara with Native-Born French Women. Frontiers in Sociology, 7.
Kaplan, A., Herbst-Debby, A., Endelweld, M., and Achouche, N. (2023). Stratified patterns of adolescent employment and their relation to educational attainment. Journal of Youth Studies, 1-21.
Herbst-Debby, A., Kaplan, A., Endelweld, M., and Achouche, N. (2023). The Third Breadwinner: Adolescent employment, family income and parental divorce. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 84, 100772
Herbst-Debby, A., and Achouche, N. (2023). Double jeopardy: Gendered social policy for two risky life periods in six welfare state contexts. In Women's Studies International Forum,100, 102814.
Kaplan, A., Herbst-Debby, A., Endeweld, M., & Achouche, N. (2024). Stratified patterns of adolescent employment and their relation to educational attainment. Journal of Youth Studies, 27(4), 588-608.
Achouche, N. (2025). The Labor Market Challenges and Coping Strategies of Highly Skilled Second-Generation Immigrants in Europe: A Scoping Review. Societies, 15(4), 93.
Achouche, N., Endeweld, M., & Bental, B. (2025). Paths to Self-Employment: The Role of Childbirth Timing in Shaping Entrepreneurial Outcomes. Social Sciences, 14(6), 389.

Reviewer: European Journal of Population; Gender & Society; Gender, Work & Organization; Social Science Research; Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.