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The early labour market effects of generally and vocationally oriented higher education : is there a trade-off?
Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2015
This study investigates whether the choice for a vocationally versus a generally oriented higher education program entails a trade-off between higher employment chances and better matches at the start of the career (when opting for a vocational orientation) and a lower risk of bad match...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288534
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The iceberg decomposition: a parsimonious way to map the health of labour markets
Baert, Stijn - 2020
This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much larger. Therefore, we point to the clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254253
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The iceberg decomposition : a parsimonious way tomap the health of labour markets
Baert, Stijn - 2020
This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much larger. Therefore, we point to the clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249694
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What shifts did Covid-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?
Baert, Stijn - 2021
This article discusses the evolution of key labour market indicators in the EU-27 countries between 2019 and 2020, i.e. between the year before the covid-19 crisis broke out and the year in which it impacted the economy heavily. Whereas earlier policy-oriented studies have dealt with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505164
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What shifts did COVID-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?
Baert, Stijn - 2021
This letter discusses the evolution of key labour market indicators in the EU-27 countries between 2019 and 2020, i.e. between the year before the COVID-19 crisis broke out and the year in which it impacted the economy heavily. Whereas earlier policy-oriented studies have dealt with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507679
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Does it pay to care? : prosocial engagement and employment opportunities
Baert, Stijn; Vujić, Sunčica - 2016
. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are randomly assigned to fictitious job … nonprofit orientation of the job posting firm. As a result, our findings are consistent with the idea that prosocial workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449875
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I won't make the same mistake again : burnout history and job preferences
Sterkens, Philippe; Baert, Stijn; Moens, Eline; Derous, Eva - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167366
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I won't make the same mistake again : burnout history and job preferences
Sterkens, Philippe; Baert, Stijn; Moens, Eline; Derous, Eva - 2022
persons with a very high risk of clinical burnout differ in job preferences from non-burned-out workers. Moreover, we link … these differences in preferences with (1) diverging perceptions of job demands and resources in a job, as well as (2 … current risk of burnout judged fictitious job offers with experimentally manipulated characteristics in terms of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820690
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I won't make the same mistake again : burnout history and job preferences
Sterkens, Philippe; Baert, Stijn; Moens, Eline; Derous, Eva - 2022
persons with a very high risk of clinical burnout differ in job preferences from non-burned-out workers. Moreover, we link … these differences in preferences with (1) diverging perceptions of job demands and resources in a job, as well as (2 … risk of burnout judged fictitious job offers with experimentally manipulated characteristics in terms of their willingness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806273
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Is labour market discrimination against ethnic minorities better explained by taste or statistics? : a systematic review of the empirical evidence
Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn; Ghekiere, Abel; … - 2020
Scholars have gone to great lengths to chart the incidence of ethnic labour market discrimination. To effectively mitigate this discrimination, however, we need to understand its underlying mechanisms because different mechanisms lead to different counteracting measures. To this end, we reviewed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256131