A project of this magnitude cannot be accomplished by one person alone.
A project of this magnitude cannot be accomplished by one person alone.
The core team consists of the principal investigator (PI), one postdoctoral researcher, two PhD researchers, and three research assistants. Moreover, the backing of a wider supervisory team and advisory board is essential to the success of the core team’s efforts.
Joop Schippers
Joop Schippers works as a professor of Labour Economics at Universiteit Utrecht and at Hogeschool Rotterdam.
He is one of the coordinators of the multidisciplinary platform Future of Work of Universiteit Utrecht. His research covers a broad area under the heading ‘Labour markets and societal inequality’. Much of his research has been on gender inequality in labour markets and on the labour market situation of older workers. In his research he combines a theoretical approach with mostly quantitative empirical research, especially among organisations and employers, with much attention for institutional arrangements. Currently he works primarily on the large NGF-project ‘Meer uren werkt’.
He has served and serves on a number of boards and advisory committees, both in science and in the field of socio-economic policy making. Currently he chairs – among other things – the board of NSvP and the NRO-program committee on the connection between education and the labour market. He is also a member of the SER-committee on the advancement of females in the board room.
