Prof Dr R. van der Velden
Research profile
He is member of several research associations in the field of social stratification, education and labour market. He has published on many studies in the field of education, training and labour market. Current research focuses on education and skills development, transition from education to work, knowledge economy and the demand for 21st century skills, skills mismatches and the acquisition and decline of skills over the life course.
Research projects
He supervised several international studies on the transition from school to work, among others the international REFLEX project on higher education graduates, the employer perspective survey on the selection process for higher education jobs and he was one of the coordinators in the first cycle of the PIAAC project (http://www.oecd.org/site/piaac). Currently he is coordinator of the Netherlands Cohort Study on Education (https://nationaalcohortonderzoek.nl/) of the Netherlands Initiative for Education Research (NRO).
Other publications
- van der Velden, R., & Bijlsma, I. (2019). Effective skill: a new theoretical perspective on the relation between skills, skill use, mismatches, and wages. Oxford Economic Papers-New Series, 71(1), 145-165. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpy028
Meer informatie over deze publicatie - Levels, M., van der Velden, R. K. W., & Allen, J. P. (2014). Educational mismatches and skills: new empirical tests of old hypotheses. Oxford Economic Papers-New Series, 66(4), 959-982. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpu024
Meer informatie over deze publicatie - Humburg, M., & van der Velden, R. K. W. (2015). Skills and the graduate recruitment process: Evidence from two discrete choice experiments. Economics of Education Review, 49, 24-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2015.07.001
Meer informatie over deze publicatie - Cornelisz, I., van der Velden, R., de Wolf, I., & van Klaveren, C. (2018). The consequences of academic dismissal for academic success. Amsterdam Center for Learning Analytics. ACLA Working Paper Series No. 20181 http://acla.amsterdam/workingpapers-wp20181/
Meer informatie over deze publicatie - Ferreira Sequeda, M. T., de Grip, A., & van der Velden, R. K. W. (2015). Does on-the-job informal learning in OECD countries differ by contract duration. Maastricht University, Graduate School of Business and Economics. GSBE Research Memoranda No. 021 https://doi.org/10.26481/umagsb.2015021
Meer informatie over deze publicatie - Verhaest, D., & van der Velden, R. K. W. (2013). Cross-country differences in graduate overeducation. European Sociological Review, 29(3), 642-653. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcs044
Meer informatie over deze publicatie - Bijlsma, I., van den Brakel, J., van der Velden, R., & Allen, J. (2016). Estimating literacy levels at a detailed regional level: an application using Dutch data. Paper presented at Small Area Estimation Conference 2016, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Meer informatie over deze publicatie - Levels, M., van der Velden, R. K. W., & DiStasio, V. (2014). From school to fitting work: How education-to-job matching of European school leavers is related to educational system characteristics. Acta Sociologica, 57(4), 341-361. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001699314552807
Meer informatie over deze publicatie - van der Velden, R., & Bijlsma, I. (2016). College wage premiums and skills: a cross-country analysis. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 32(4), 497-513. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grw027
Meer informatie over deze publicatie - Fregin, M-C., Levels, M., & van der Velden, R. (2020). Labour market institutions and the challenge of allocating the right people to the right jobs. Evidence on the relation between labour market institutions and optimal skill matching from 28 industrial countries. Compare-A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 50(2), 257-275. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2019.1695197
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