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Marloes de Graaf-Zijl is interviewed for 'Flex & Figures', a magazine published by ABU

Number 1, April 2012. Publisher ABU.

AIAS Lunch Seminar 10 May - Martin Olsthoorn - Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences/UvA

Precarious Employment

AIAS Lunch Seminar 3 May - Dorota Lepianka - AIAS

More or less strangers. Social distance to the old, the young, the ethnic and the non-ethnic Dutch as reflected in news media reporting

AIAS Lunch Seminar 19 April - Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ebbinghaus - Mannheim Centre for European Social Research

The Governance of Funded Pensions in Europe – Lessons from the Financial Crisis?

New management of AIAS

Prof. dr Paul de Beer
Prof. dr Maarten Keune

Upcoming AIAS events

See for all the upcoming AIAS events the website: www.uva-aias.net/events

The latest issue of the quarterly CLR-News (1-2012) is now online

Corrected. See also the website www.clr-news.org.

The new edition of the AIAS newsletter is now available online

Click here for the Spring 2012 edition of the AIAS newsletter

Els Sol published about an upcoming Dutch Act on social assistance: 'Work according to one’s abilities'

Zwakke punten in Wet werken naar vermogen (Weak spots in the Act on Work according to one’s abilities) . In: _Zeggenschap, 23rd year, March 2012 p.44-46.

New AIAS WP: Collective redress and workers’ rights in the EU

WP 118, by Jan Cremers & Martin Bulla

AIAS Lunch Seminar 5 April - Aidan Regan - AIAS

Labour Market Response to the Crisis in the EMU

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter - March

The March 2012 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

Wiemer Salverda on part time employment (video)

video At Me Judice, debate between economists

Survey among the Dutch workforce; 'no simple exchange between severance payment and individual learning account'

By Frank Tros. In the Dutch magazine ‘Tijdschrift Zeggenschap’ (March 2012)

Start (Dutch) course Solidarity & Inequality

Wednesday 11 April 2012. This course is taught in Dutch. See for all the information: www.uva-aias.net/leergangen

Three UvA professors UvA-hoogleraren appointed as crown member of the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER)

Among them are Prof. E. Verhulp, Chair of AIAS, and Prof. A. Nauta who teaches in the AIAS course ‘HRM in Beeld’.

AIAS Lunch Seminar 22 March - Roel Mehlkopf - CPB, Tilburg University and Netspar

Value-based generational accounting, with an application towards the current pension reform in the Netherlands

Conference: Healthy, Active and Involved at the Job (in Dutch)

Wednesday 9 May 2012, AMC Amsterdam. See for more information www.gezondactiefenbetrokken.nl

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter - January

The Jan. 2012 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded. (Up-to-date information on collective bargaining development across Europe.)

AIAS Lunch Seminar 23 February - Teun Jaspers - Utrecht University

‘Effective transnational collective bargaining. Binding transnational (company) agreements: a real and challenging perspective?’

Article on Nu.nl: ‘Part-time jobs lead to displacement’

Prof. Wiemer Salverda.
Last update: 27 January 2012 10:37 hrs. © NUzakelijk/Marijke Verhaar. www.nu.nl.

Report on the functioning of the European Cooperative Society (SCE)

By Jan Cremers

New publication: Work inequalities in the crisis - Evidence from Europe

Edited by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead. Salverda wrote the chapter on the Netherlands: Is the impact of the financial crisis on inequalities …

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The December 2011 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

AIAS Lunch Seminar 12 January - Wiemer Salverda - AIAS

Lunch Seminar: “Euro crisis, labour market and labour relations – A discussion”, by Wiemer Salverda. Location: Amsterdam. Please register aias@uva.nl

The newest issue of the quarterly CLR-News (4-2011) is on the web

See www.clr-news.org under publications.

Jan Cremers contributes to the 20th anniversary issue of the Marmara Journal of European Studies

In: Marmara Journal of European Studies, Volume 20. Number 2, December 2011

New working paper: 'The wage gap between men and women'

‘De loonkloof tussen mannen en vrouwen. Een review van het onderzoek in Nederland’, WP 114 by K.G.Tijdens and M. van Klaveren

First class finishes PhD Laboratory

Article (in Dutch) at www.foliaweb.nl by Clara van de Wiel. 13 Dec. 2011, 13:05 hrs

Unions should campaign for youth issues

The future of unions is not looking good, Professor Paul de Beer said at a debate at the Rode Hoed in Amsterdam on 8 December.

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter - November

The Nov. 2011 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded. (Up-to-date information on collective bargaining development across Europe.)

New article: The gap between insiders and outsiders is widening: reform the labour market

New article Janna Besamusca and Jan Cremers in the Dutch Journal S&D (Edition 68, Nos. 9&10, 2011). The gap between insiders and outsiders… (in Dutch)

Inaugural Lecture Wiemer Salverda – Labour market, inequality, and the crisis

Because of the Stichting Politieke Ekonomie Salverda is now appointed as Extraordinary Professor of Labour and Inequality, after he openly accepted with his

New publication: Worker involvement in the European Company (SE) - A handbook for practitioners

Authors: Michael Stollt (ETUI) and Elwin Wolters (ETUI/AIAS)
Editing: Jan Cremers (AIAS)

Young working parents jeopardized by new regulations childcare allowance

Article by Marloes de Graaf-Zijl at Me Judice website: http://www.mejudice.nl (in Dutch)

The latest issue of the quarterly CLR-News (3-2011) is now online

Impression of the Dutch Labour Market Day (Nederlandse ArbeidsmarktDag) 2011

On 6 October the ‘NAD’ took place in Den Haag. This year the organisation was done in cooperation with ‘Statistics Netherlands’ (CBS).

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The September 2011 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

New article: Decentralising wage setting in times of crisis? The regulation and use of wage-related derogation clauses in seven European countries

Keune, M. (2011), European Labour Law Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1: 86-94.

New article Jan Cremers: Kanttekeningen bij de nieuwe zelfstandigheid,

Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken, 3-2011, Boom/Lemma, ISSN 0169‐2216

Dutch Labour Market Day (NAD) 6 Oct. 2011 - Den Haag

See for all the information (in Dutch): www.arbeidsconferentie.nl. Deadline 2 October

AIAS Lunch Seminar 29 September - Michael Sattinger - Randstad Chair/University at Albany, Department of Economics

Title: “Qualitative Mismatches”. Qualitative mismatches arise when the qualifications of workers, individually or in the aggregate, are different from the …

Pension agreements ends fake security

In a video interview (in Dutch), Paul de Beer comments on the recently concluded pension agreement.

Trade unions have to make a clear choice

In the magazine ‘Zeggenschap’, Paul de Beer analyses the current crisis of the trade union movement in the Netherlands.

New article by Jan Cremers

Nederland geen gidsland. Betere rechten voor Europese ondernemingsraden. In Zeggenschap 22e Jaargang, NR 3, page 38-40. September 2011. ISSN 0166-1590

Start (Dutch) course HRM

Tuesday 20 September. This course is taught in Dutch. See for all the information: www.uva-aias.net/leergangen

AIAS Lunch Seminar 22 September - Rolph van der Hoeven - EUR - International Institute for Social Studies Den Haag

Employment, Inequality and Globalization, A Continuous Concern

AIAS Lunch Seminar 15 September - Laurens Buijs - AIAS

A Qualitative Case Study of Local Solidarity

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The July-August 2011 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

AIAS Lunch Seminar 8 September - Wiemer Salverda - Director AIAS / Coordinator GINI project

Societies’ (un)equal treatment of the low educated Towards a comprehensive analysis

Willem Drees Lecture 19 September, 20.00 hrs by Ruud Lubbers, Minister of State

in the Oosterhuis room of ‘De Rode Hoed’, Amsterdam. (Lecture will be in Dutch)

Collective bargaining in a time of crisis: developments in the private sector in Europe

Transfer European Review of Labour and Research, 17(3) 303–321. By Vera Glassner, Maarten Keune and Paul Marginson

New AIAS working papers by Kea Tijdens and Maarten van Klaveren

WP 110: Over- & underqualification of migrant workers. WP 109: Employees’ experiences of the impact of the economic crisis in ’09 & ’10. WP 85: Multinationals..

Call for papers: research seminar ‘Solidarity and Social Distance’

The research seminar ‘Solidarity and Social Distance’ on November 18th, 2011, will focus on social distance as a determinant of social cohesion and solidarity.

AIAS Lunch Seminar 11 august - Premilla D’Cruz - Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Bystander behaviour in the context of workplace bullying: The influence of workplace friendship and managerialist HRM

New publication - Jan Cremers

Management and worker involvement: cat and mouse or win-win? In: “The Sustainable Company: a new approach to corporate governance”

Wiemer Salverda appointed to special chair of Labour Market and Inequality at AMCIS

Dr Wiemer Salverda will occupy the new chair, established by the Stichting Politieke Ekonomie, at the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies AMCIS…

AIAS Lunch Seminar 30 June by Trudie Schils - Maastricht University

The leaning tower of PISA: disentangling ability and motivation Please send an email to aias@uva.nl to register.

The latest issue of the quarterly CLR-News (1-2011) is now online

New article by Cremers: Are you being served? The consultation procedure on the functioning of the European Company Statute

In Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research May 2011 17: 269-274. Door Jan Cremers

New ICTWSS database now online

Version 3.0 is now available. See for more information: http://www.uva-aias.net/208

New article by Haafkens, Kopnina, Meerman & van Dijk: Facilitating job retention for chronically ill employees

Facilitating job retention for chronically ill employees: perspectives of line managers and human resource managers. BMC Health Serv Res. 2011 May 17;11(1):104.

Young Women’s Conference of Decisions for Life project

From 9 -11 May, 2011, more than 100 women from 23 countries met in an International Young Women’s Conference, in the next stage of a campaign to empower young..

AIAS Lunch Seminar 9 June by Jan Cremers & Elwin Wolters (AIAS)

EU and national company law – fixation on attractiveness. Please send an email to aias@uva.nl to register.

Dutch Labour Market Day (NAD) 6 Oct. 2011 - Den Haag

Enjoy the early bird fee until 15 June and receive Eur 50 discount! Early bird fee is Eur 226,40

New article by Ferry Koster: Europeanization and the political economy of active labour market policies

In: European Union Politics. By

Ten Years of WageIndicator Celebrated With Conference

On 12 May, 2011, ‘The Next Decade’, a conference on occasion of 10 years of the Wage Indicator was held in De Burcht in Amsterdam.

Maarten Keune speaks at conference of the Social and Economic Council (SER)

On the 4th of May, the SER organized a conference titled ‘Dealing with differences in the Eurozone’. Maarten Keune discussed

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The April 2011 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded. (Up-to-date information on collective bargaining development across Europe.)

AIAS participates in COST Action IS1004: WEBDATANET

Web-based data-collection – methodological challenges, solutions and implementations

Wiemer Salverda appointed to special chair of Labour Market and Inequality at AMCIS

Dr Wiemer Salverda will occupy the new chair, established by the Stichting Politieke Ekonomie, at the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies AMCIS of the …

Seminar Robert Kuttner - Tue 10 May

Labour Market Regulation and the Global Economic Crisis – the Case of the United States. Click here to register Deadline 1 May!

AIAS Lunch Seminar 21 April by Maarten van Klaveren & Kea Tijdens - AIAS

Women’s work and employment in developing countries: results of 14 countries’ overview studies Please send an email to aias@uva.nl to register.

AIAS Lunch Seminar 14 April by Ruya Gokhan Kocer - AIAS

“Gone Fishing”: Modeling Diversity in Work Ethics. Annette Freyberg-Inan & Rüya Gökhan Koçer. Please send an email to aias@uva.nl to register.

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The March 2011 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded. (Up-to-date information on collective bargaining development across Europe.)

AIAS Lunch Seminar 7 April - Aidan Regan - University College Dublin

The Political Economy of Social-Wage Pacts in the EMU; Irish Neoliberal Corporatism in Crisis (2008-2010). Please send an email to aias@uva.nl to register.

New course 'Trends in labour relations'

In cooperation with the Burcht (Center for labour relations)

New publication - "Flexicurity: a conceptual critique"

Maarten Keune and Luigi Burroni, “Flexicurity: a conceptual critique“, European Journal of Industrial Relations, 17(1) 75–91.

New publication 'In search of cheap labour in Europe'

Working and living conditions of posted workers. by Jan Cremers.

New AIAS events

Seminar Robert Kuttner – 10 May and AIAS conference 23 September. See the website www.uva-aias.net/events

Pensions will never be guaranteed

Article by Paul de Beer in the Dutch newspaper ‘de Volkskrant’.

Reading Lunch 17 March - 'The evolution of cooperation'

We will discuss Nowak, M.A. (2006), Five rules for the evolution of cooperation, M.A. & Sigmund, K. (1998), Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring

New publication: Impact of the crisis on employees in Germany and the Netherlands

Kea Tijdens and Maarten van Klaveren have contributed to an article published in WSI-Mitteilungen 2011/2

New publication: Dynamics of the Dutch Labour Market with a Focus on Vulnerable Groups

(In Dutch). Wiemer Salverda contributed the chapter on “Low-paid employment, part-time jobs and earnings mobility”.

New guest: Aidan Regan

College of Human Sciences, University College Dublin

AIAS Lunch Seminar 10 March - Heejung Chung - Tilburg University & AIAS

Gender differences in work-family conflict: Role of culture norms

The 'Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality' now available in paperback

The Handbook edited by Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan and Tim Smeeing is now published by Oxford University Press as a paperback at the much reduced price…

IDSC of IZA becomes exclusive outlet for WageIndicator data

The International Data Service Center of IZA has entered a cooperation with the Wage Indicator Foundation and AIAS, which will make the IDSC …

Research day Solidarity in the 21st century

On Monday 29 November 2010 the research day of ‘Solidarity and Diversity’ took place at the University of Amsterdam.

AIAS Lunch Seminar 10 February - Maarten Berg - AIAS

Income inequality and happiness in nations

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The December 2010 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

New publication: Derogation clauses on wages in sectoral collective agreements in seven European countries

By Maarten Keune

AIAS guest: Despina Alexiadou

Assistant professor at the university of Pittsburgh will be at AIAS from 17 – 21 January 2011

AIAS staff member ranks 13 in top-40 of Dutch economists

De Beer ranks 13 in last years ‘Polderparade’ of the Dutch economic journal TPE Digitaal.

AIAS Lunch Seminar 13 January - Peter Donker van Heel - ECORYS Rotterdam

Methods to measure job vacancies

Take-off of Research institue for the Dutch trade union movement

On January 1st, 2011, the Research institute for the Dutch trade union movement was launched. AIAS-researcher and Henri Polak professor Paul de Beer has been…

New publication: Social Risk Coverage in Collective Labour Agreements: Empirical Evidence from the Netherlands

Yerkes, M., Tijdens, K.G., European Journal of Industrial Relations. www.uva-aias.net/publications/show/1401

AIAS Lunch Seminar 16 December David Hollanders - Delft University

The exaggerated influence of an older median voter on pension benefits

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The November 2010 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

New publication: Worker participation: a ‘burden’ on the European Company (SE)?

A critical assessment of an EU consultation process, by Jan Cremers, Norbert Kluge and Michael Stollt.

Health at Work Project asks employer, manager and HRM in the Netherlands or the UK for help

Health at Work is a project of the European Commission

AIAS Lunch Seminar 2 December Jan Zutavern - AIAS

‘It just didn’t come their way’. Employment debates, government policy and the development of part-time work in Germany

Salverda interviewed by Dutch newspaper "De Telegraaf" about partial unemployment benefit

Article in ‘De Telegraaf (in Dutch)’, Saturday 20 November 2010

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The October 2010 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

AIAS Lunch Seminar 4 Novemeber Nuria Ramos Martin and Maarten van Klaveren - AIAS

Sector-level bargaining and possibilities for for deviations at company level: the cases of France, Ireland and Spain

Max Smolka wins Deutscher Journalistenpreis

Smolka was for the Journalist in Residence programme guest at AIAS from 15 Sept. – 15 Dec. 2009.

AIAS Lunch Seminar 21 October Marieke Beentjes - AIAS

Integrate to integrate

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The September 2010 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

What’s the security component in flexicurity policies?

Conference of the Flexworkresearch project on 26 October

Benefit use of immigrants is diverse

Report Uitkeringsgebruik allochtonen toont divers beeld is only available in Dutch. UvA Press Dept. persvoorlichting@uva.nl

New WISUTIL project 2010-2011

Pay and conditions in the utilities. Researchers: Maarten Keune, Kea Tijdens, Maarten van Klaveren, Melanie Hughie-Williams

Non-standard employment relations or the erosion of workers’ rights

Jan Cremers. English text of Dutch article in the journal ‘Zeggenschap’

AIAS Lunch Seminar 23 September Danny de Vries - AISSR & AIAS

Mapping the Human Resources for Health Crisus Using the WageIndicator Websurvey

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The July/August 2010 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

AIAS Lunch Seminar 9 September Jan Cremers - AIAS

Free movement and working conditions

Reading Lunch 14 September - 'The Desire to Expel Unselfish Members from the Group'

We will discuss a chapter out of the book ‘The Desire to Expel Unselfish Members from the Group’

Don’t lower pensions just yet

This article discusses several short-comings in Dutch pension funds (in Dutch).

Vacancy Coördinator PhD Lab (0.2 fte)

Achterhaald economisch paradigma dreigt pensioenen over de rand te duwen

Wiemer Salverda bestrijdt op Mejudice.nl dat banken de risico’s van de toekomst tot 60 jaar vooruit zo goed zouden kennen dat …

AIAS Lunch Seminar 26 August - Silvia Rossetti

“The effect of public and private policies for extending working lives on recent early exit trend of men and women in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands”

AIAS Lunch Seminar 22 July - Stefan Thewissen - Utrecht University School of Governance & Heejung Chung - AIAS

Same Question, Similar Responses? A Comparison of the Social and Unemployment Crisis Response Policies in Germany, the UK, and Sweden

Many new AIAS working papers

a.o. WageIndicator country reports Brazil, Indonesia, Angola etc., but also Measuring occupations in web-surveys, the WISCO database of occupations.

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The June 2010 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

New publication Zeggenschap

Elwin Wolters & Jan Cremers wrote: “The European Company (SE) in the Netherlands” (in Dutch)…

New position Ferry Koster

Koster is a former employee of AIAS. He is still involved in the project Solidariteit van de 21ste eeuw (Solidarity in the 21st century).

New publication: "Arbeid in crisis?"

As a result of the Dutch Labour Market Day (NAD) held on 14 October 2009, this book has now been published. It’s been edited by a.o. Paul de Beer & Kea Tijdens.

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The May 2010 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

Chairman Social and Economic Council: big policy challenges for upcoming years

AIAS annual conference held on 26 May.

New Publication Russell Sage Foundation

Publication “Low-wage Work in the Wealthy World” concludes research for Russell Sage Foundation

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The April 2010 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

New publication Wout Buitelaar - The two faces of the war at the Maliebaan

A narrative study from Utrecht 1940-1945

Market chances of disadvantaged higher educated labour.

Research presentation Thursday 29 April 2010 from 10.00 till 12.15 hrs. The Hague, the Netherlands

Conference: Alternatives to Flexicurity: New Concepts and Approaches

Co-organised by Maarten Keune (AIAS, HSI – University of Amsterdam).
6-7 May 2010 – Madrid

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The March 2010 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

Bos, Eurlings en tijd

Wout Buitelaar wrote a column on the website www.ORinformatie.nl (in Dutch)

New book publication concludes ILO-EU project on minimum wages

Edward Elgar just published the book “The Minimum Wage Revisited In The Enlarged EU” edited by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead.

AIAS Lunch Seminar 4 March - Sander Steijn

“Country differences in the effects of rising inequality; A multi-level analysis of unwanted societal outcomes”

Collective bargaining and the crisis

Vera Glassner and Maarten Keune wrote a policy brief on collective bargaining responses to the economic crisis.

Recover time

Wout Buitelaar wrote a column on the website www.ORinformatie.nl (in Dutch)

AIAS Lunch Seminar 25 February - Jacqueline O'Reilly

“Comparing Household Transitions between work and care in Denmark, Spain and the UK with ECHP data”

A Dutch approach to flexicurity: negotiated change in the organisation of temporary work

Doctorate degree Hester Houwing, Friday 26 February, 12.00 hrs Agnietenkapel, Amsterdam

AIAS Lunch Seminar 18 February - Elwin Wolters

“Worker involvement in the European Company (SE)”

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The January 2010 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The December 2009 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

AIAS Lunch Seminar 21 Jan. - Arjan Heyma (SEO Economic Research)

“Consequences of full unemployment experience rating for labour demand and investments in human capital in the public sector”

Optimism or pessimism about the results of the crisis on youth unemployment in the Netherlands

Wiemer Salverda

AIAS Lunch Seminar 3 Dec. - Abel Polese (Uni. Edinburgh)

“Living the state or surviving the state? Illegal workers, informal socio-economic networks, and their role in everyday life in Turkey and Ukraine”

AIAS Lunch Seminar 26 Nov. - Jeroen Smits (Radboud)

“Database Developing World: Unprecedented opportunities for comparative multilevel research on developing countries”

Division of roles in social security needs reconsideration

The distribution of responsibilities with respect to social insurance needs reconsideration. A larger role for the …

Individualization and globalization do not endanger solidarity

Amsterdam University Press and The University of Chicago Press have just published Sticking together or falling apart?

AIAS Lunch Seminar 19 Nov. - Monika Ewa Kaminska & Marta Kahancova

Post-socialist Trade Unions in Healthcare sector – is migration a base for revival strategies?

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The October 2009 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

Succesful Dutch Labour Market Day

On October 14 AIAS organised on behalf of the Foundation ‘NAD’ and the ‘TVA’ the conference Work in crisis?

AIAS Lunch Seminar 5 November - Max Smolka - Financial Times Deutschland

Shareholder Value versus Stakeholder Value in The Netherlands (plus optionally a general debate on business journalism afterwards)

Reform of state pension marks end of national social insurances

“It is not the raising of the retirement age that amounts to bargaining the heritage of …

You can register until 12.00 TODAY for the NAD 2009

14 October – SER, Den Haag

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The September 2009 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

AIAS Lunch Seminar 8 October - Helen Kopnina- AIAS

Chronically Ill Employees and Human Resource Management Policy in The Netherlands.

Inaugural lecture Dr M.J. Trappenburg

Inaugural lecture Dr M.J. Trappenburg entitled, “Actieve solidariteit” – Thursday 24-9-2009 – 14:30 hrs. Entrance Singel 411, at the corner of Spui.

New application rounds 'Journalist in Residence Fellowship'

Application deadline for visits in 2010 is 16 November 2009.

Wiemer Salverda is interviewed by Amsterdam TV AT5

Subject: youth employability

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The July / August 2009 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

AIAS Lunch Seminar - Eiko Kenjoh

‘Long Working Hours and Work Life Balance in Japan’

Master HRM starts again in september

AIAS-researcher Paul de Beer: Tight labour market disappears out of sight

As a consequence of the economic recession the Netherlands will experience a period of at least 5 years ~~and possibly even 10 years~~ of high unemployment rates

Youth unemployment is seriously underestimated

Article in Dutch Newspaper ‘Trouw’, 12 August 2009

Youth unemployment in the Netherlands is structurally underestimated

and it is no surprise that low-educated youth have a labour-market problem. Says Wiemer Salverda.

Raise of the 'Dutch Old Age Pensions Act-age' is unnecessary, but desired

(Dutch) articles by Paul de Beer in the summer issue of ‘Socialisme & Democratie’ and in the ‘Volkskrant’ on 25 July 2009.

Helen Kopnina teaches at University in India

Kopnina received an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship to spend the month of August teaching and doing research at the University of Jadavpur, in Calcutta, India

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The June 2009 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can now be downloaded.

Publication Drs H. Houwing and Dr T. Schils on TPE-digitaal: Flexicurity in cao's: een strategie om de arbeidsmarktparticipatie te verhogen?

Marta Kahancová was awarded the best dissertation prize 2007-2008

of the Dutch Association of Sociology for her dissertation: Making the Most of Diversity.

New article in SpringerLink's journal 'Law and Economics'

Part-time employment: a comparative analysis of Spain and the Netherlands. Authors: Maite Blázquez Cuesta and Nuria Elena Ramos Martín

AIAS cannot be reached on Tu. 23 June

AIAS will have it’s annual day out on Tu. 23 June. Therefore the office cannot be reached as of 12.00 hrs.

New Collective Bargaining Newsletter

Collective Bargaining Newsletter issue (5) May 2009

Jelle Visser keynote speaker in Oslo

Jelle Visser is a keynote speaker on a labour law conference and will address the consequences of recent ECJ decisions for European Industrial relations

AIAS Lunch Seminar May 14th Heejung Chung (AIAS & UvT)

‘What is it good for? Performance outcomes of working time flexibility of European companies’

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The April 2009 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can be downloaded now.

Guest Lecture Prof. Arne Kalleberg 'Precarious Work, Insecure Workers: a Global Challenge'

Prof. Arne Kalleberg (Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) will give a lecture titled ’Precarious Work,

AIAS Lunch Seminar Thursday May 7th Margo Trappenburg: 'The robustness of medical professional ethics'

Thursday May 7th Margo Trappenburg (AIAS and University of Utrecht) will present the AIAS Lunch Seminar titled ‘The robustness of medical professional ethics’

Call 4 Papers Dutch Labour Market Day (NAD)

14 October 2009, SER The Hague. Conference of the Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken (TvA) and the foundation Nederlandse Arbeidsmarktdag.

AIAS website online again!

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The March 2009 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can be downloaded now.

Information evening 'Master HRM-Arbeid, Organisatie en Beleid' 15 April 2009

At this information session it will be explained what can be learned during the Master. It is held in Dutch. More information can be found on the Dutch website.

Interview at the 'Korea Economy Television'

Wiemer Salverda and Paul de Beer were interviewed by reporters of the Korea Economy Television on 31 March.

Public Lecture 31 March - Richard Hyman (LSE)

Collective Bargaining, European Integration and the Global Crisis: What Now for Trade Unions

Final conference EurOccupations - 23 & 24 April 2009

Brussels & Leuven, Belgium. At this conference, the key results of the EurOccupations project will be presented.

AIAS guest - Eiko Kenjoh

From 1 April till 20 September2009 Eiko Kenjoh from the Asia University, Tokio – Japan will be at AIAS as a guest researcher.

Prof. dr. Wout Buitelaar involved in Master HRM

Prof. dr. Wout Buitelaar (Faculty of Economics, Amsterdam Business School) has taken up an advising role for the AIAS master program

Stefan von Borstel new guest at AIAS

The Journalist in Residence Program 2009 is starting with the stay of Stefan von Borstel at AIAS, from 16 march till 31 may 2009

Wiemer Salverda contributed his view on the threat that (defined benefit) occupational pensions will be

nominally lowered under pressure from the pension supervisor, the Dutch Central Bank.

Jelle Visser gave a keynote speech on Industrial Relations ...

and the Lisbon Process at a conference organized by the European Commission in Brussels, 4-5 March 2009.

CLR News: with a.o. a review on the TLM project

The European network Construction Labour Research has released a new edition of the quarterly CLR-News (1-2009).

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The February 2009 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can be downloaded now.

Released: the ICTWSS Database: Institutional Characteristics of Trade Unions, Wage Setting, State Intervention and Social Pacts

collected by Jelle Visser.

Wiemer Salverda spoke at the Joint Policy Conference Economic change, inequality ..

..and social inclusion in Europe, organised by the European Commission and the EQUALSOC Network of Excellence, in Brussels, 18 February 2009.

New publication: Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality

Wiemer Salverda a.o. has worked on this special publication.

Paul de Beer in Dutch tv programme on taxes

Thursday 12 February 2009 Paul de Beer is a guest at the Dutch TV channel KRO – Nederland 3, 20.30 hrs

LABOUR, Special Issue "Training and Job Insecurity"

The first of three journal issues containing results of the LoWER network, LABOUR Vol. 23 (March 2009) was just made available at the website of the journal

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The January 2009 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can be downloaded now.

Press release: Industrial Relations in Europe Report 2008

The expert seminar on the European Commission’s Industrial Relations in Europe 2008 report takes place in Amsterdam on the 6th of February 2009

Female labour participation is of influence on expansion of labour agreements

Kilian P.A.B. Schreuder (Sociology) taking his doctoral degree – Tuesday 10 February 2009 – 12.00 hrs. Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, Amsterdam

AIAS Lunch seminar February 12th Marloes de Graaf-Zijl

Thursday February 12th. Marloes de Graaf-Zijl will give a lunch seminar on ‘the relationship between job satisfaction and contingent-employment’

Wanted: ISHSS Students

AIAS is looking for ISHSS students om interviews af te nemen voor het onderzoek WageIndicator.

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The November 2008 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can be downloaded now.

Publication in Finnish top journal Yhteiskuntapolitiikka

(Social Policy) Van Gerven, Minna (2008) Winners and losers of social policy reforms in Europe (sosiaalipoliittisten reformien voittajat ja haviajat).

Equalsoc call for papers

Interdisciplinary workshop: “Low Pay, Low Skill, and Low Income (LOPSI)” – Università Cattolica, Milan, 26 – 27 June, 2009

ASSR/AIAS Seminar Jaap Dronkers - 15 January 2009

“Educational systems as a resource or hindrance for immigrants?” Thursday 15 January, 14.00-15.30 hrs, Oudemanhuispoort F201-C

Jelle Visser writes article in the Dutch Financieele Dagblad

Article is in Dutch: Current crisis not the cause of derailment of national policy and welfare state.

New ETUI book: Privatisation and liberalisation of public services in Europe

An analysis of economic and labour market impacts

Articles by Jan Cremers

In Transfer vol. 14, no. 3 and a new issue of the quaterly CLR-News (4-2008)

Wiemer Salverda pleads on Radio 1 against the accepted reflex of wage restraint

On Tuesday 9 December 2008 Wiemer Salverda spoke on Radio 1.

New issue Collective Bargaining newsletter

The November 2008 issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter can be downloaded now.

AIAS Lunch Seminar Peter Auer (ILO) - 4 December 2008

Thursday 4 December. Peter Auer will give a seminar about his study on “comparison of labour markets and labour market reforms in France and Germany”

Kea Tijdens is presenting at the Eurostat workshop in Luxembourg

“Data collection of occupational data”

AIAS Lunch Seminar Annette Scherpenzeel - 20 November 2008

Thursday 20 November. Annette Scherpenzeel will give the seminar: “Cost-free data and data collection for researchers”

Invitation meeting NCSI

Invitation meeting NCSI “Medezeggenschap in roerige tijden: nieuwe rollen en verantwoordelijkheden”
The Hague, Sociaal-Economische Raad – Thursday 27 November 2008 – 13.00-17.00 hrs

AIAS Lunch Seminar Melissa Imansoeradi / Marc van der Meer (AIAS) - 30 October 2008

Thursday 30 October. Melissa Imansoeradi and Marc van der Meer will give the seminar: “Moroccan and Turkish caring and nursing staff in Amsterdam health care – a truly explorative pilot project to avoid a non-case”

AIAS Lunch Seminar Heejung Chung - 23 October 2008

Thursday 23 October. Heejung Chung will give the seminar: “Working time flexibility components of European companies: flexibility for workers and flexibility for companies”

AIAS gast - Alexandre Afonso

Alexandre Afonso is a PhD student at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques et internationales, Lausanne. He will stay from 1 November2008 – 31 October 2009

AIAS Lunch Seminar Minna van Gerven- 9 October 2008

Thursday 9 October. Minna van Gerven will give the seminar: “The Broad Tracks of Path Dependent Benefit Reforms, A longitudinal Study of Social Benefit Reforms in Three European Countries, 1980- 2006”

AIAS Lunch Seminar Jelle Visser - 25 September 2008

Thursday 25 September. Jelle Visser will give the seminar: “The Emergence and Evolution of Social Pacts – A provisional analysis based on case studies and a time series panel of 21 countries”

Special issue International Journal of Comparative Sociology

A research group of the European research network EQUALSOC has prepared a special issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology.