In most industrialised countries, one may observe the tendency for higher educated people to be employed in jobs that used to be occupied by lower skilled people. Although this tendency appears to be a rather general phenomenon, economic literature provides no clear clue about the causes of this...

Until now there has been surprisingly little research on the causes of and the remedies for skills obsolescence. This study tries to fill that gap to some extent by analysing the relation between risk factors and skills obsolescence. Moreover, the role remedies play to counter skills...

This paper describes the forecasting model of the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), which has been developed for making forecasts about developments of the labour market position of different types of education with respect to the Dutch labour market. Every two years,...

In 1995 bracht het ROA prognoses naar buiten die erop wezen dat zich de komende jaren een opmerkelijke omslag op de arbeidsmarkt voor hoger opgeleiden zou voltrekken. Op grond van de ervaringen van de laatste twee decennia was destijds het beeld ontstaan van grote groepen afgestudeerden van met...

Life-cycle theory predicts that employers enter into implicit contracts with newly hired employees to ensure rent-sharing and to decrease turnover after firm-specific training investments. Typically, these implicit contracts would include both upward sloping earning profiles and mandatory...

Human capital factor endowments have become one of the main determinants of international competitiveness. Both to catch up in the technological race and to increase the long-term flexibility of the workforce, industrialized countries require a highly skilled labour force. This paper analyzes...

In most industrialised countries, one may observe the tendency for higher educated people to be employed in jobs that used to be occupied by lower skilled people. Although this tendency appears to be a rather general phenomenon, economic literature provides no clear clue about the causes of this...