Department of Macro, International and Labour Economics (MILE)
MILE – Policy-Relevant Economics
At MILE, we explore the economic issues that matter for policy today. Our research spans labour markets and education, international trade, macroeconomics, and more, from inequality dynamics, technology and economic growth, resilience and climate change, to expectations, in Emerging Markets and in Europe, reflecting the diversity of expertise in our department.
What connects us is a common goal: to understand and improve the design of economic policies that shape people’s lives, from the local to the global level.
Policy-relevant economics also guides our teaching, ensuring that our courses equip students to analyse and engage with real-world policy challenges.”
About us
Fields: Macroeconomics, Labour Economics, International Economics, Education Economics
Department head: Bart Golsteyn
Secretaries: Silvana de Sanctis, Marion Muitjens
Management: Mike Simon
Contact
Secretarial office MILE:
Room A0.03
Phone: +31 43 38-83620
Mailing address:
Department of Economics
P.O.Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
In the spotlight
Michalis Moatsos awarded Open Competition XS grant from the NWO
Michalis Moatsos was awarded a €50,000 grant from the NWO to work on his project “Addressing The Democratic Deficit in Poverty Measurement: Public Elicitation of Adequate Consumption Quantities Across 11 European Countries”. This will further expand his research on measuring the many dimensions of poverty, by creating a more inclusive procedure based on social participation rather than expert judgment.
🔗 Learn more: Link
SBE blog by Julian Ashwin
The more we tackle ageing, the more it matters
In a new SBE blog, Julian Ashwin, Assistant Professor in Economics, shows that tackling ageing-related diseases may lead to increasing returns — each improvement makes the next one even more valuable.
This has big implications for how we invest in healthcare, design policy, and prepare labour markets for longer working lives.
🔗 Read the full blog: Link
Meeting with schools for the OnderwijsMonitor Limburg
Trudie Schils and her team organised on March 18th a meeting with school leaders in the region, who are part of the knowledge network OnderwijsMonitor Limburg on designing and implementing programs or interventions in schools. For an effective approach to tackle certain issues insight from research and practice should be merged. They pointed to the importance of not only using research for the content of a program, but also for the implementation. The WHAT and HOW both need attention for a program to be successful.
