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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 …

Seminar Prof. em. Dr. Günther Schmid - 14 October 2010

“The Future of Employment Relations: Goodbye ‘Flexicurity’ – Welcome Back Transitional Labour Markets?”

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 quarterly issue CLR-news

CLR-News 1/2010 – “Bricklaying is more than Flemish bond”

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.