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Ruud Gerards |
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News 2012 ·
New job: Starting 1 September 2012, I will become
project manager / researcher at The Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht University
School of Business and Economics. ·
Video-interview:
Linked
to my Ph.D. defense, a video-interview with me about my research has been
placed on the UM webmagazine: click
here to view ·
Ph.D. Defense: 10
May 2012 I successfully defended my Ph.D. Thesis “Unemployment and
Employability: how firms can help”. 2011 ·
Conference
presentation: From 20-21 June I participated in the IWAEE
(International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education) in Catanzaro,
Italy. I presented my paper on firm sponsored training for low skilled
workers. ·
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. |
* Photo by Frans van den Broek