Dr. Ruud Gerards
 

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Research Fields

 

● Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
 ● Human Resource Management
● Applied Economics
 ● Entrepreneurship

  
 Specific research interests

My research theme is titled 'Sustainable employability in the 21st century'. Key areas of research I work on are:

 

● Unemployed job search and labour market outcomes.

● New Ways or Working / hybrid working / teleworking and its (employee level) outcomes.

● Resilience and 'readiness' for future labour market developments of employees.

● The dynamics of financial worries, well-being and labour market outcomes.

● Employer level studies on how they attempt to create a vivid learning culture and facilitate workers’ sustainable employability.

● Entrepreneurship

  
 Additional, personal, academic interests

Heterodox economics, including Modern Monetary Theory, Job Guarantees and De-growth. Sustainability. Political Economy.

 

Fellowships

2023-present: Researchcentre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht University, The Netherlands

2021-2024: Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), Maastricht University, The Netherlands

2015-2018: Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), Maastricht University, The Netherlands