This paper uses a natural experiment approach to identify the effects of an exogenouschange in future pension benefits on workers’ training participation. We use uniquematched survey and administrative data for male employees in the Dutch public sectorwho were born in 1949 or 1950. Only the...

This paper explores the relationship between graduates’ skill levels and the risk ofovereducation and unemployment in 17 European countries. We distinguish betweenfield-specific and general skills and between two labour market segments, theoccupational domain of a particular field of study and...

Human resources are playing a central role in the knowledge economy that emerged in the Western world as the human capital embodied in both high-tech capital goods and the working population is a main determinant of the performance of individuals, organizations and national economies. Human...

In 2002 is in opdracht van de Stichting A+O een start gemaakt met de opzet van eenArbeidsmarktmonitor voor de Nederlandse Metalektro. Deze monitor geeft inzichtin de actuele ontwikkelingen op de arbeidsmarkt en de toekomstige ontwikkelingenop personeels- en arbeidsmarktgebied in de Metalektro....

In juli 2009 bracht de door de Ministeries van SZW en OCW geïnstalleerde Denktank Leren en Werken haar advies Tijd voor ontwikkeling uit. In dit advies deed de Denktank een aantal voorstellen voor een strategie om het leven lang leren in Nederland meer van de grond te krijgen. Eén van deze...

In 2002 is in opdracht van de Stichting A+O een start gemaakt met de opzet van een Arbeidsmarktmonitor voor de Nederlandse Metalektro. Deze monitor geeft inzicht in de actuele ontwikkelingen op de arbeidsmarkt en de toekomstige ontwikkelingen op personeels- en arbeidsmarktgebied in de...

Human Capital Depreciation during Family-related Career Inter¬ruptions in Male and Female Occupations This study investigates the relation between human capital depreciation during family-related career interruptions and occupational choice of women in the (West) German labour market. In...

In this paper we analyse whether the training participation and task flexibility of low-skilled workers contribute to their firm-internal and external mobility. We find that both workers’ training participation and task flexibility merely contribute to workers’ firm-internal employability....

This paper analyses the effects of work-related training on worker productivity. Toidentify the causal effects from training, we combine a field experiment that randomlyassigns workers to treatment and control groups with panel data on individual workerperformance before and after training. We...

This paper assesses the impact of a dramatic reform of the Dutch pension system on mental health, savings behavior and retirement expectations of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950 or later face a substantial reduction in their...