Sustainable Labour Market

We are struggling with increasing staff shortages in healthcare and education. At the same time, unemployed people over the age of 50 hardly get hored. How can we achieve a more balanced and sustainable labour market? Researchers from Utrecht are study this issue from different angles.

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A new employment contract: Data as Labour
It is time for a redistribution of the value of data, recommends professor Maarten Goos, together with a European Expert Group to the European Commission.
Young People and the Future of the Workplace
Professor Joop Schippers (Labour Economics) is a fellow for five months at NIAS, studying sustainable careers, lifelong learning and basic jobs.
Relatively few workers lose their job because of automation
After 5 years, approximately 8 percent of employees leave the company as a result of automation, according to research from, among others, Utrecht University.

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The Bright Side of Boredom at work
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23 January 2023
Carina Schott (Utrecht University) and Caroline Fischer (Twente University) define four types of positive behaviours that can result from boredom at work.

House of Representatives asks UU researchers for advice on childcare allowance
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14 October 2022
From 2025, the Dutch government plans to greatly increase the childcare allowance and make it independent of income: all parents will be reimbursed for 96% of the costs. Thomas van Huizen and Janneke Plantenga were invited to the round-table discussion to answer questions from members of the House of Representatives.

Possible solutions for medical specialists under pressure
News
13 October 2022
Evelien van Leeuwen shows that HR instruments can likely contribute to strengthening careers and employability of medical specialists.

Future of Work video: the influence of digitalisation
News
6 July 2022
What do we know from research about the digitalisation of jobs? Economist Ulrich Zierahn and IT researcher Iris Beerepoot share findings and practical advice.

IARC Monographs evaluate the carcinogenicity of occupational exposure as a firefighter
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1 July 2022
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), has evaluated the carcinogenicity of occupational exposure as a firefighter.
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