Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken - Volume 30, Issue 2, 2014

Summary This editorial offers an introduction to the current issue.

A lost generation of youth in the labour market? A lost generation of youth in the labour market? After the economic crisis of the 1980s concerns have been raised whether the high youth unemployment during that period produced a ‘lost generation’ of young people. The same question has been asked recently after the emergence of the currently high youth unemployment. But how justified is this issue? In order to find this Read More

Young and unemployed: member of a lost generation? Young and unemployed: member of a lost generation? This article addresses the issue of youth unemployment in the Netherlands. Due to their relatively low levels of work experience and the growing incidence of less stable forms of employment, young people are likely to suffer the most from the economic and financial crisis. In this research, the author studies the w Read More

Midden jaren tachtig van de vorige eeuw was er grote aandacht voor flexibele arbeidsrelaties in Nederland. Dat was kort na de heftige economische crisis van 1980 tot ongeveer 1984 en de daarmee gepaard gaande explosie van de werkloosheid (pas rond 2000 daalde de werkloosheid tot het percentage van voor de crisis). Het ministerie van SZW stelde de Werkgroep Flexibele Arbeidsrelaties in en er werd Read More

Temporary jobs and well-being Temporary jobs and well-being Government policies in European countries have the objective of creating a flexible labour market to combat or prevent unemployment. Temporary work, however, affects well-being negatively. Our research goal is to determine how the well-being of temporary workers compares to that of unemployed workers. We compare the loss of well-being in temporary job Read More

Shrinking employment and imbalance between efforts and rewards at work Shrinking employment and imbalance between efforts and rewards at work In this article, we explore whether and why shrinking employment in the work organization leads to an experience of imbalance between efforts and rewards at work. We use data-sets from employers and from employees in the Dutch public and education sectors. Results s Read More

The social identity of unemployed: effects on well-bein The social identity of unemployed: effects on well-bein Based on Tajfel and Turner's (1979) Social Identity Theory, we distinguish two aspects of the social identity of the unemployed: social comparison with the employed (the in-group image of the unemployed) and social identification with the unemployed. We expect that the unemployed will evaluate their group in mo Read More

Als The Economist een onderwerp groot brengt, zie je dat vaak in de weken daarna ook in Nederlandse kranten en televisieprogramma's terugkomen. Zo ook met The rise of the robots, een bijlage over de opkomst en gevolgen van nieuwe technologieën die eind maart dit jaar verscheen. Wat volgde, waren grote artikelen in dagbladen, een item in Nieuwsuur, en veel interviews met Erik Brynjolfsson en Andrew Read More

De arbeidsmarkt in Nederland werd in 2013 gekenmerkt door oplopende werkloosheid, een afnemend aantal banen en vacatures, en een groter beroep op de WW en de bijstand. Er was daardoor sprake van een steeds ruimere arbeidsmarkt, met een afnemende vraag en een toenemend onbenut arbeidsaanbod. Dit artikel beschrijft de ontwikkeling van de arbeidsmarkt aan de hand van genoemde indicatoren, waarbij eerst Read More

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