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Frank Cörvers (1966) is leader of the Dynamics of the Labour Market research programme at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht University. He studied general economics at the universities of Maastricht and Hanover. In 1991 he graduated on the relationship between corporatism and economic performance at the Maastricht University. Subsequently he was employed as a lecturer at the economics faculty of the Maastricht University and as a researcher at ROA. From 1998 till 2000 he worked at Statistics Netherlands in Heerlen, first as a project leader in the Commercial Services sector and later as task group manager of the Income Information System. In 1999 he obtained his doctorate on ‘The Impact of Human Capital on International Competitiveness and Trade Performance of Manufacturing Sectors’ at the Maastricht University. His research interests include regional labour markets, ageing, human capital and international competitiveness, and labour market forecasting.

Recent papers

M. Vendrik, F. Cörvers (2009), Male and female labour force participation: the role of dynamic adjustments to changes in labour demand, government policies and autonomous trends, ROA-RM-2009/13.

F. Cörvers, R. Wilson (2009), Prospects for graduates at a pan-European level, paper presented at the 2nd Conference on the European Labour Market for Academic Graduates ELM, Maastricht, 22nd-24th October.

M. Vendrik, F. Cörvers (2009), Male and female labour force participation: the role of dynamic adjustments to changes in labour demand, government policies and autonomous trends, IZA Discussion Paper No. 4397, September.

V. Venhorst, F. Cörvers (2009), Entry into the working life: spatial mobility and job-match quality of higher educated graduates, paper presented at 49th European Congress of the Regional Science Association, 25th-28th August, Łódź, Poland.

D. Cloodt, F. Cörvers, H. Heijke, J. van Thor (2009), The impact of distance deterrence on the choice of field of study in vocational education in the Netherlands, paper presented at 49th European Congress of the Regional Science Association, 25th – 29th August, Łódź, Poland.

F. Cörvers, H. Heijke, B. Kriechel, H. Pfeifer (2009), Differences in the Wage-Profiles of Employees with General and Vocational Education - A Three Country Analysis, ROA/BIBB, Maastricht University, February.

R. Montizaan, F. Cörvers, A. de Grip, T. Dohmen (2009), Demotivating Workers: Retrenchment of pension rights and negative reciprocity, paper presented at the 2009 conference of the European Economic Association, 23th-27th August, Barcelona.

J. Muysken, F. Cörvers, T. Ziesemer (2008), Immigration can alleviate the ageing problem, Research Memorandum METEOR, RM/08/004, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht University.

R. Montizaan, F. Cörvers, A. de Grip (2008), Training Background and Early Retirement, IZA Discussion Paper No. 3504, May.

 

Recent publications

 

Raymond Montizaan, Frank Cörvers, Andries De Grip, The effects of pension rights and retirement age on training participation: Evidence from a natural experiment, Labour Economics, Forthcoming (working paper version: ROA-RM-2009/12).

Frank Cörvers, Arnaud Dupuy, Estimating Employment Dynamics Across Occupations and Sectors of Industry, Journal of Macroeconomics, Forthcoming (working paper version: ROA-RM-2009/11).

L. Borghans, F. Cörvers (2009), The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research, forthcoming in C.T. Clotfelter (ed.), American Universities in a Global Market, NBER.

M. Hensen, R. de Vries, F. Cörvers (2009), The role of geographic mobility in reducing education-job mismatches in the Netherlands, Papers in Regional Science. Vol. 88, pp. 667-682.

F. Cörvers, M. Hensen, D. Bongaerts (2009), The delimitation and coherence of functional and administrative regions, Regional Studies, Vol. 43, pp. 19-31.

B. Kriechel, F. Cörvers and H. Heijke (2008), Regional Labour Market Forecasts in the Netherlands, in C. Knobel, B. Kriechel and A. Schmid (eds), Regional Labour Market Forecasting, Rainer Hampp Verlag, Mering, pp. 38-51.

F. Cörvers, J. Meriküll (2007), Occupational Structures across 25 EU Countries: The Importance of Industry Structure and Technology in Old and New EU Countries, Economic Change and Restructuring, Vol. 40, pp. 327-359.

Recent Dutch publications

J. Coenen, F. Cörvers, D. Fouarge, C. Meng, A. Nelen (2009), Onderbenutting van mbo’ers nuttig op de arbeidsmarkt? [Is underutilization of workers with intermediate vocational education useful?], TPEdigitaal, Vol. 3, pp. 103-123.

F. Cörvers, J. Muysken, C. de Neubourg en A. Schliwen (2009), Arbeidsmigratie [Labour migration], in WODC, Migratie naar en vanuit Nederland - een eerste proeve van de Migratiekaart, Cahiers 2009-03, WODC/Maastricht University, Den Haag, pp. 43-92.

F. Cörvers (2009), Pendelstromen en functionele regio’s [Commuting flows and functional regions], Economisch Statistische Berichten, Vol. 94, p. 208.

F. Cörvers (2009), De arbeidsmarktperspectieven voor arbeidsongeschikten: Het belang van opleiding [Labour market perspectives for the disabled: the relevance of education], Maandblad Reïntegratie, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 9-11.

F. Cörvers (2009), Concentratie van technieklocaties in het MBO, De invloed op de studiekeuze van leerlingen in Zuidoost-Nederland [Concentration of technical education sites in MBO, The impact on study choice of pupils in the southeast of the Netherlands], in M. Boekenoogen, P. van Hoesel, Y. Prince, Ca. Verheijen (red.), Methoden van beleidsonderzoekers: creatief en oplossingsgericht, Uitgeverij Lemma, Den Haag, pp. 69-78.

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