This report summarises some of the latest results from the Cedefop Skillsnet project on Forecasting skill supply and demand in Europe to 2022. This is part of an ongoing Framework Agreement which extends over 4 years. This report documents work carried out in Year 2 2014. The researchers are...

This paper compares narrow, or specialised, and broad, or less specialised, upper-secondary vocational education VE programmes in the Netherlands with respect to their graduates position in the labour market and how they assess a number of aspects of the programme they completed. The data used...

The Dutch educational system is highly stratified from secondary education onwards3, and this also applies to MBO. Each MBO course can be followed in two different learning pathways, called the vocationally educating learning pathway beroepsopleidende leerweg BOL and the vocationally guiding...

International student mobility has rapidly increased in the past three decades the number of students enrolled in tertiary education outside of their country of citizenship was 0.8 million in 1975, but it increased to 4.3 million in 2011 OECD, 2013.1 This rapid increase can be explained by...

Recently Dunne 2010 and Dronkers, van der Velden Dunne 2011 introduced a three-level model countries, schools, and students. They showed that school characteristics like socioeconomic composition and ethnic diversity have substantial effects on achievement levels and also affect the relation...

Dit werkdocument geeft de methodiek weer die gevolgd is bij het samenstellen van de arbeidsmarktinformatie over 21 bedrijfssectoren, 127 beroepsgroepen en 102 opleidingstypen, welke opgenomen is in het ArbeidsmarktInformatieSysteem van het ROA en gebruikt in het rapport De arbeidsmarkt naar...

Dit werkdocument geeft de methodiek weer die gevolgd is bij het vertalen van de landelijke arbeidsmarktprognoses van het ROA naar 35 regios. De landelijke arbeidsmarktprognoses zijn in december 2013 gepubliceerd in het rapport De arbeidsmarkt naar opleiding en beroep tot 2018. Het rapport biedt...

This study investigated whether earnings inequality is associated with social capital as measured by active membership in organizations and interpersonal trust. Pearson product-moment correlation analysis showed that greater earnings inequality was associated with lower values on both measures...