News

2011

• Article in trade paper: In their June 2011 issue, the Dutch trade paper for works councils `OR-informatie' published an article about my research into firm sponsored vocational training for low skilled workers. Click here to read the article.

• Newspaper article: March 25th 2011 Dutch newspaper Trouw published an article about my research into firm sponsored vocational training for low skilled workers. Click here to read the article.

• Presenting a seminar: March 24th 2011 I will present my paper on 'Firm sponsored vocational training for low skilled workers' at the lunch seminar of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS).

• Accepted for conference: My paper on 'Firm sponsored vocational training for low skilled workers' is accepted for poster presentation at the conference of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), to be held from 22-24 September 2011 on Cyprus.

2010

• Presenting a seminar: On December 7th 2010 I gave two invited seminars at the conference on lifelong learning (`Leven Lang Leren Loont') in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. I talked about the effects of a firm sponsored vocational training program for low skilled workers.

• Working paper available: August 2010: A new working paper is available titled `Active labor market policy by a profit maximizing firm': see the publications section of this website.

• Conference presentation: From 9-12 June 2010 I participated in the ESPE (European Society for Population Economics) conference in Essen, Germany. I presented the current version of the paper on a pure private employment program.

• Conference presentation: April 23 2010 I presented at NAKE (Dutch network of general and quantitative economists) day in Utrecht.

2009

• Conference presentation: The first week of December 2009 I presented my current working paper at two refereed conferences in Australia. The National Unemployment Conference at the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) in Newcastle and the Society of Heterodox Economists (SHE) conference in Sydney. 

• Visiting position: 27 October 2009 - 4 December 2009 I visited at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.

• Conference presentation: May 2009 I attended the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) conference in Boston, USA. There I presented a poster on private sector unemployment initiatives.