Rolf van der Velden (1955) is professor at Maastricht University, director of the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) and program director Education and Occupational Career at the same institute. He is research fellow at the Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE) at Maastricht University and fellow of the Amsterdam Centre for Learning Analytics (ACLA). He supervised several (inter)national studies on the transition from school to work, among others the international REFLEX project (www.reflexproject.org) and the HEGESCO project (www.hegesco.org). Currently he is coordinator of the National Education Panelstudy (https://nationaalcohortonderzoek.nl/) of the Netherlands Initiative for Education Research (NRO) and one of the coordinators in the PIAAC project (http://www.oecd.org/site/piaac/). He is member of several research associations in the field of social stratification, education and labour market. In 1983 he finished his study sociology at the University of Gronin­gen. From 1983 till 1990 he worked at the Institute for Educational Research in Gronin­gen, where he held the position of Head of the Division of Labour Market Research. In 1991 he finis­hed his Ph.D. thesis on 'Social Background and School-success'. 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. Rolf van der Velden at IDEAS: https://ideas.repec.org/f/pva265.html 

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