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).

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