Third chapter of the English version of the book 'Energieke Arbeid' published by the Centre of Applied Labour Market Research and Innovation (Dutch abbreviation: KCA) to celebrate the 10th anniversary of applied labour market research at Hanze University of Applied Sciences. This chapter discusses the second line of research of KCA: The Labour Market in the EnergyPort Groningen Region.
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In 2013 the Centre of Applied Labour Market Research (Kenniscentrum Arbeid, KCA) has developed a method for data collection to get an insight in employer’s future demand for staff. The method is developed to contribute to solve an action problem in the Eemsdelta region. Despite indications of a threat of shortage of technicians in that region, none of the regional actors undertakes action. They miss detailed information about the employers’ future demand for staff. To be able to take tailor-made measures, the actors must have a proper idea of the labour market problems which can be traced back to company level. For each job opening must be clear to which profession it is related and to which educational specialism and educational level. These information appears to be not available. For employers it is, understandable, difficult to estimate their future demand for staff, because a lot of uncertain factors influence that need. Especially SME’s who often don’t have a HR-officer are missing the knowledge and time or money to invest in making a future picture of their need for staff. And data from existing labour market information sources can’t be translated well at regional or local level, never mind at company level. Without detailed information about the future employer’s demand for staff, possible problems stay latent. There is no sense of urgency for the employers to take action and the regional policy makers are missing information to develop specific educational and labour market policy. To get the needed detailed information, it has to be obtained from the employers themselves, at company level. During a research pilot in 2013 KCA has designed a method for data collection and practiced it with nine companies in the Eemsdelta region. The results indicate that the method works. In a relatively labour-extensive way the needed information can be obtained. At company level it gives the employer insight in his actual and future staff requirements and makes him aware of possible problems. As regards to the policy makers, the pilot was too small for a complete regional picture, but it demonstrates that the anonymised data of the individual companies can be merged to one umbrella data-file. From that file analyses can be made to find trends and possible problems at the labour market, both at regional and sectoral level and to obtain input for developing effective policy. The successful results of the pilot offers good reasons for a follow-up study with much more companies and to develop the method into a complete labour market monitor, by broadening the method with data about the labour supply and data of new employers.
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Opening chapter of the English version of the book 'Energieke Arbeid' published by the Centre of Applied Labour Market Research and Innovation (Dutch abbreviation: KCA) to celebrate the 10th anniversary of applied labour market research at Hanze University of Applied Sciences. This first chapter takes a brief look back at the development of KCA over the past ten years.
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English version of the book 'Energieke Arbeid' published by the Centre of Applied Labour Market Research and Innovation (Dutch abbreviation: KCA) to celebrate the 10th anniversary of applied labour market research at Hanze University of Applied Sciences. After an introduction by drs. Marian van Os (vice-president of the Executive Board of Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen), the first chapter (by dr. Harm van Lieshout) takes a brief look back at the development of KCA over the past ten years. The second chapter (by dr. Louis Polstra) discusses the first of two lines of research of KCA: Healthy Ageing & Work. The third chapter (by dr. Harm van Lieshout) discusses the second line of research: The Labour Market in the EnergyPort Groningen Region. The book concludes with a brief epilogue by van Lieshout & Polstra.
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This paper addresses one important mechanism through which the EU tries to improve the operation of its labour markets: the opening up of national borders for free worker movement within the EU. Free worker movement is a fundamental EU right; but EU enlargement begged the question of how and when to allow complete free movement to workers from those new Member States. The EU agreed upon a transitional period of up to 7 years after accession of eight new Middle and Eastern European States (EU-8) on May 1st, 2004. Duringthis transitional period Member States may apply certain restrictions on the free movement of workers from, to and between these new Member States. By 2012, all such restrictions will have been abolished. A similar procedure applies regarding the accession of two additional new Member States on January 1st, 2007. Only three of the fifteen incumbent EU Member States at the time (EU-15) chose to immediately allow free movement from workers from the EU-8. The other twelve maintained their work permit systems, albeit with some modifications. Since, some (e.g. Germany) have already decided to keep such barriers in place until 2012. The Netherlands has kept a work permit system in place up to May 1st, 2007. At that time it abolished that system and effectively extended free worker movement to include workers from the EU-8. This makes the Dutch case, at this point in time, an interesting case for which to analyse the process and effects of increased free labour movement into a national labourmarket. This paper discusses the evolution of (temporary) work migration from EU-8 countries into the Netherlands. It first addresses the flexicurity nature of EU policies towards labour market integration and towards the inclusion of new EU countries in that process. It subsequentely reviews the three socio-legal regimes that can currently apply to work performed for Dutch firms Netherlands by workers from the EU-8 (which, now, is that same as that applies for workers from the EU-15): wage employment; employment through temporary employment agencies; and self-employment. It then discusses the development of the volume of work performed by citizens from the EU-8 in the Netherlands, and socio-economic effects for both the migrant workers and Dutch society and economy. It concludes with a discussion of challenges (or the lack thereof) that this increased free movement of foreign labour caused and causes for Dutch institutions.
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This book brings together the opening addresses of the first four professors of theCentre of Applied Labour Market Research and Innovation at Hanze UniversityGroningen, the Netherlands. The Centre started in 2008.
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Second chapter of the English version of the book 'Energieke Arbeid' published by the Centre of Applied Labour Market Research and Innovation (Dutch abbreviation: KCA) to celebrate the 10th anniversary of applied labour market research at Hanze University of Applied Sciences. This chapter (by dr. Louis Polstra) discusses the first of two lines of research of KCA: Healthy Ageing & Work.
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De loopbaan van mannen wordt beperkt als ze kiezen voor een werkweek van 4 keer 9 uur, maar vrouwen profiteren juist van zo’n indeling. Dat is een conclusie van het arbeidsmarktonderzoek van economisch geograaf Inge Noback. Uit het onderzoek blijkt verder dat het aantal gewerkte uren per week voor beide seksen nog altijd daalt. Noback: ‘Als de overheid zich zorgen maakt over vergrijzing moet ze niet alleen de pensioenleeftijd verhogen, maar ook meer uren werken op de agenda zetten.’ Noback promoveert op 27 oktober 2011 aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Voor haar onderzoek naar de verschillen in loopbaanontwikkeling tussen mannen en vrouwen dook Noback in de administratie van een groot Nederlands bedrijf. Door met een loep te kijken hoe de carrière van mannen en vrouwen zich ontwikkelde, gerelateerd aan het aantal uren dat zij werkten, vond zij uit dat de seksen naar verschillende maatstaven worden beoordeeld: ‘Omdat het om één bedrijf gaat kun je niet generaliseren, maar je ziet wel hoe processen werken. Het blijkt dat vier dagen van negen uur voor mannen niet werkt. Zij worden geacht altijd beschikbaar te zijn. Als ze er één dag van de week niet zijn, worden ze daarop afgerekend. Voor vrouwen ligt dat anders, omdat men er toch al van uitgaat dat ze parttime werken. Zij kwamen dus sneller vooruit.’ Regionale verschillen Het onderzoek naar de verschillen in carrière is maar één onderdeel in het arbeidsmarktonderzoek. Noback keek bijvoorbeeld ook naar de regionale verschillen in arbeidsparticipatie. Vrouwen in een stedelijke omgeving blijken vaker en langer te werken dan hun seksegenoten op het platteland. Mannen werken in steden juist minder. Een andere opvallende conclusie is dat vrouwen van werk weerhouden worden niet alleen door zorg voor kinderen, maar ook die voor ouderen in de omgeving. Kinderen In Nederland hebben weliswaar relatief veel vrouwen een baan, maar gemiddeld werken ze veel minder uren dan vrouwen in de meeste andere Europese landen. Ook mannen werken steeds minder uren, zeker na de geboorte van het eerste kind, stelde Noback vast. Dat kan niet lang zo doorgaan, verwacht ze: ‘De overheid moet zorgen voor langere werkweken, want met alleen het verhogen van de pensioenleeftijd redden we het niet. Er is dus meer kinderopvang nodig. Nu zijn kinderen nog allesbepalend voor de loopbaan van vrouwen en eigenlijk is dat helemaal niet vanzelfsprekend. Natuurlijk heb je vrouwen met jonge kinderen die daarvoor een periode willen thuisblijven. Dat moeten ze vooral doen, maar dat hoeft niet de hele loopbaan te bepalen.’ Vingerafdruk Er zijn veel geaggregeerde gegevens beschikbaar over de arbeidsmarkt en ook over arbeidsparticipatie van mannen en vrouwen. Het CBS, de UWV en andere instanties publiceren ze met grote regelmaat. Dat veel vrouwen in Nederland een parttimebaan hebben, maar per saldo minder uren werken dan seksegenoten in veel andere landen is bekend, evenals de trend dat zowel mannen als vrouwen steeds minder werken. Maar Noback kreeg voor haar onderzoek unieke gegevens tot haar beschikking: ‘Ik mocht rondsnuffelen in de microdata van het CBS. Dat betekent geanonimiseerde informatie over tien miljoen individuele banen, en heel specifieke informatie over de dynamiek in bijvoorbeeld het aantal gewerkte uren. In tegenstelling tot de survey data is dat echt nieuw. Je mag ze alleen bekijken, je krijgt toegang vanaf je laptop met een vingerafdruk, dankzij een programma dat ze bij je thuis komen installeren. Echt heel bijzonder.’ Arbeidspotentieel Uit dit Sociaal Statistisch Banen Bestand maakte Noback een selectie van werknemers die tussen 2003 en 2005 dezelfde baan hebben gehouden, maar van wie wel het aantal werkuren kon zijn veranderd. Het blijkt dat de werkuren van vrouwen vaker veranderen dan die van mannen, helemaal als ze eerst een baan hadden van minder dan drie dagen per week. Noback: ‘Dat toont aan dat er nog behoorlijk wat arbeidspotentieel over is.’
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Like a marker pen on a map, the Covid-19 pandemic drastically highlighted the persisting existence of borders that used to play an ever decreasing role in people´s perception and behavior over the last decades. Yes, inner European borders are open in normal times. Yes, people, goods, services and ideas are crossing the border between Germany and the Netherlands freely. Yet we see that the border can turn into a barrier again quickly and effectively and it does so in many dimensions, some of them being not easily visible. Barriers hinder growth, development and exchange and in spite of our progress in creating a borderless Europe, borders still create barriers in many domains. Differing labor law, social security and tax systems, heterogeneous education models, small and big cultural differences, language barriers and more can impose severe limitations on people and businesses as they cross the border to travel, shop, work, hire, produce, buy, sell, study and research. Borders are of all times and will therefore always exist. But as they did so for a long time, huge opportunities can be found in overcoming the barriers they create. The border must not necessarily be a dividing line between two systems. It has the potential to become a center of growth and progress that build on joint efforts, cross-border cooperation, mutual learning and healthy competition. Developing this inherent potential of border regions asks for politics, businesses and research & education on both sides of the border to work together. The research group Cross-Border Business Development at Fontys University of Applied Science in Venlo conducts applied research on the impact of the national border on people and businesses in the Dutch-German border area. Students, employees, border commuters, entrepreneurs and employers all face opportunities as well as challenges due to the border. In collaboration with these stakeholders, the research chair aims to create knowledge and provide solutions towards a Dutch-German labor market, an innovative Dutch-German borderland and a futureproof Cross-Border economic ecosystem. This collection is not about the borderland in times of COVID-19. Giving meaning to the borderland is an ongoing process that started long before the pandemic and will continue far beyond. The links that have been established across the border and those that will in the future are multifaceted and so are the topics in this collection. Vincent Pijnenburg outlines a broader and introductory perspective on the dynamics in the Dutch-German borderland.. Carla Arts observes shopping behavior of cross-border consumers in the Euregion Rhine-Meuse-North. Jan Lucas explores the interdependencies of the Dutch and German economies. Jean Louis Steevensz presents a cross-border co-creation servitization project between a Dutch supplier and a German customer. Vincent Pijnenburg and Patrick Szillat analyze the exitence of clusters in the Dutch-German borderland. Christina Masch and Janina Ulrich provide research on students job search preferences with a focus on the cross-border labor market. Sonja Floto-Stammen and Natalia Naranjo-Guevara contribute a study of the market for insect-based food in Germany and the Netherlands. Niklas Meisel investigates the differences in the German and Dutch response to the Covid-19 crisis. Finally, Tolga Yildiz and Patrick Szillat show differences in product-orientation and customer-orientation between Dutch and German small and medium sized companies. This collection shows how rich and different the links across the border are and how manifold the perspectives and fields for a cross-border approach to regional development can be. This publication is as well an invitation. Grasping the opportunities that the border location entails requires cooperation across professional fields and scientific disciplines, between politics, business and researchers. It needs the contact with and the contribution of the people in the region. So do what we strive for with our cross-border research agenda: connect!
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The main objective of this report is to analyse and inform about international labour mobility, particularly within Europe, from the perspective of the Dutch Health and Social Care Sector. The report starts by describing the introduction of a new care system in The Netherlands. The government does not participate directly in the actual provision of care. This is a task principally for private care suppliers. Furthermore, the legal position of the Health and Social Care professions, regulated through the Individual Health Care Professions Act, and questions like the international recognition of degrees and the evaluation of foreign diplomas are discussed. This is followed by a clarification of the Dutch education system, particularly, relating to the study of medicine, nursing education and social work education. Subsequently, some core data on the ageing Dutch population are presented. The grey pressure increases and this will have an impact on health spending, health support and the future labour market. Then what follows is a description of the development of employment in the Dutch Health and Social Care Sector, per branch as well as the professions that are engaged in it. The general picture, at this moment, is that the Health and Social Care labour market is reasonably in balance. This trend will continue in the near future; shortages are expected only in the long term. All research done on the subject indicates that international mobility of medical and social professionals is still low in the Netherlands. The question remains whether a more active recruitment policy would be a solution for the expected long term shortages. The report concludes with a look at recruitment policy and some of its developments at the global, national and local level.
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