Simulatie-experimenten met een prototype van een model dat voor Nederland op consistente wijze alle arbeidsmarktstromen op macro-niveau in beeld brengt, laten zien dat een arbeidsparticipatiebeleid weinig effectief is indien dat beleid zich uitsluitend op het arbeids-aanbod richt. Een...

One of the sectors that gained most of the boost in ICT developments is the call centres sector. The focus in this paper is on spatial diffusion patterns of call centres in the Netherlands. The number of call centres has increased rapidly in the last decade and it seems that impacts of call...

Various drivers of construction innovation are distinguished and classified in four distinctive categories: environmental pressure, technological capability, knowledge exchange, and boundary spanning. Innovation drivers in these categories are active at the transfirm, intrafirm, and interfirm...

With the advent of the era of mass migration in Europe, the issue of cultural diversity (CD ) has gained increasing social and political interest. There is a changing and often contradictory relationship between immigration, the increasing CD as a result of migration, and the development of...