This paper discusses the effects of human capital on both the level and growth of labour productivity in manufacturing sectors in seven Member States of the European Union. Sectoral labour productivity is regarded as a measure of international competitiveness. Human capital is represented by the...

De weergave van de methodiek in dit werkdocument heeft betrekking op het samenstellen van de arbeidsmarktinformatie over 34 bedrijfssectoren, 127 beroepsgroepen en 104 opleidingstypen die is gebruikt in het rapport De arbeidsmarkt naar opleiding en beroep tot 2008. Dit rapport is in november...

The paper tests the validity of the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) theorem of international trade for the Netherlands by comparing the true with the trade-revealed factor endowments of human and physical capital. The factor content analysis shows that the Netherlands is abundant in producer...

This paper discusses the effects of human capital on both the level and growth of labour productivity in manufacturing sectors in seven Member States of the European Union. Sectoral labour productivity is regarded as a measure of international competitiveness. Human capital is represented by the...

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This paper describes the forecasting model of the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), which has been developed for making forecasts about developments of the labour market position of different types of education with respect to the Dutch labour market. Every two years,...

In 1995 bracht het ROA prognoses naar buiten die erop wezen dat zich de komende jaren een opmerkelijke omslag op de arbeidsmarkt voor hoger opgeleiden zou voltrekken. Op grond van de ervaringen van de laatste twee decennia was destijds het beeld ontstaan van grote groepen afgestudeerden van met...

In most industrialised countries, one may observe the tendency for higher educated people to be employed in jobs that used to be occupied by lower skilled people. Although this tendency appears to be a rather general phenomenon, economic literature provides no clear clue about the causes of this...

Until now there has been surprisingly little research on the causes of and the remedies for skills obsolescence. This study tries to fill that gap to some extent by analysing the relation between risk factors and skills obsolescence. Moreover, the role remedies play to counter skills...