Research interests
Labour supply behaviour
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.
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 en M. Vendrik (2005),
Conjunctuur en sociale normen:
determinanten van arbeidsparticipatie [The business cycle and social norms:
determining factors of labour force participation], Kwartaalschrift
Economie, Vol. 2, pp. 142-163.
F. Cörvers and B. Golsteyn (2003),
Changes in women’s
willingness to work in a tightening labour market: the impact of
preferences, wages and individual characteristics, Research
Memorandum, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market,
ROA-RM-2003/5E, Maastricht.
F.
Cörvers, A. de Grip, J. Sanders en I. Sieben (2003), Knelpunten op de
arbeidsmarkt en het personeelsbeleid in de openbare apotheek,
Pharmaceutisch Weekblad, Vol. 138, Nr. 30, pp. 1044-1047.
F.
Cörvers, B. Diephuis en B. Golsteyn (2003), Uit- en herintreders: wat
beweegt ze?, SBAberichten, Vol. 9, No. 1, Stichting Bedrijfsfonds
Apotheken, p 3.
Regional labour markets
V. Venhorst, F. Cörvers (2009),
Entry into the
working life: spatial mobility and job-match quality of higher educated
graduates, presentation at the 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 – 28th August, Łódź, Poland.
F. Cörvers (2009),
Pendelstromen
en functionele regio’s [Commuting flows and functional regions], Economisch Statistische Berichten,
Vol. 94, p. 208.
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 (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.
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, 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.
F. Cörvers, G. Ramaekers
(2006), De regionale betekenis van hogescholen [The regional
significance of higher education institutes], Tijdschrift voor Hoger
Onderwijs, Vol. 24, pp. 184-192.
F.
Cörvers, H. Heijke (2006), De keuze voor techniek in Zuidoost-Nederland
[The choice for technical education in the South-east of the Netherlands],
Economisch Statistische Berichten, Vol. 91, pp. 282-283.
F. Cörvers, G. Ramaekers
(2006),
De betekenis van
het hbo voor de regionale arbeidsmarkt, in J.G.F. Cörvers, G.W.M.
Ramaekers, R.K.W. van der Velden, De arbeidsmarktpositie van
afgestudeerden van het hoger beroepsonderwijs,
HBO-Monitor 2005, pp. 47-59.
F.
Cörvers, M. Hensen (2005), Forecasting regional labour market
developments by occupation and education, in: F. van Oort, M. Thissen, L.
van Wissen (eds), A survey of spatial economic planning models in the
Netherlands. Theory, application and evaluation,
NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 117-133.
Ageing
R. Montizaan, F. Cörvers, A. De Grip (2009),
The
effects of pension rights and retirement age on training participation:
Evidence from a natural experiment, ROA-RM-2009/12, Maastricht
University, forthcoming in Labour Economics.
J. Muysken, F. Cörvers and T. Ziesemer (2008),
Immigration can alleviate the ageing problem, Research Memorandum
METEOR, RM/08/004, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration,
Maastricht University.
F. Cörvers (2008), Loongroei, leeftijd en conjunctuur
[Wage growth, age and business cycles],
Economisch Statistische Berichten, Vol. 93, p. 433.
J. Muysken, F. Cörvers en T.
Ziesemer (2007),
Immigratie als wapen in de strijd tegen de vergrijzing
[Immigration as a weapon in the battle against ageing],
Kwartaalschrift Economie, Vol. 4, Themanummer Vergrijzing, pp.
475-496.
R. Montizaan, F. Cörvers and
A. de Grip (2007),
Training and early retirement, ROA-RM-2007/3E,
Research Memorandum, Research Centre for Education and the Labour
Market, Maastricht.
L. Borghans, F. Cörvers, B.
Kriechel and R. Montizaan (2007),
Productiviteit, beloning en
arbeidsparticipatie van ouderen, Report for the Ministry of Economic
Affairs, ROA-R-2007/5, Maastricht.
F.
Cörvers, B. Kriechel, R. Montizaan (2006),
Scenario-analyse van de
vervangingsvraag tot 2010, ROA-W-2006/1, Working Paper,
Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt, Maastricht.
Labour market forecasting
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.
B. Kriechel, F. Cörvers (2009), Replacement
Demand Module, Chapter 5 in Cedefop
(2008),
Future Skill Needs in Europe, Medium-term Forecast,
Background Technical Report, European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training,
Thessaloniki, Luxembourg, pp. 136-156.
F. Cörvers.
A. Dupuy, J. Vall Castello (2009), Forecasting of the potential inflow of
graduates on the labour market at all education levels, Final Report
on Medium-term forecast of skills supply in Europe, January, ROA,
Maastricht University.
Cedefop
(2008),
Future Skill Needs in Europe, Medium-term Forecast, Synthesis
Report, European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training,
Thessaloniki, Luxembourg.
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.
F. Cörvers (2007), Matching
supply and demand: sector-based approaches, Statements and Comments, in:
ÖSB Consulting, IES, Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy
Studies, EU, in cooperation with the Welsh Assembly Government, Report
for the Mutual Learning Programme of the European Employment Strategy,
European Commission - DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal
Opportunities, Matching Skills Supply and Demand: The Welsh Approach,
Cardiff, 29-30 October 2007, pp. 89-95.
F. Cörvers
and J. Meriküll (2007), Classifications, data and models for European
skill needs forecasting, in: A. Zukersteinova and O. Strietska-Ilina (Eds),
Towards European skill needs forecasting, Cedefop Panorama series
Vol. 137, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities,
Luxembourg, pp. 25-38.
F.
Cörvers (2007), Information input from Member States using Cedefop’s
template, The Netherlands, in: A. Zukersteinova and O. Strietska-Ilina (Eds),
Towards European skill needs forecasting, Cedefop Panorama series
Vol. 137, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities,
Luxembourg, pp. 122-129.
F.
Cörvers (2007) and A. Dupuy, Beroepenmodel voor het onderwijs en de
zorg: werkgelegenheid en prognoses, ROA-W-2007/3, Working Paper,
Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt, Maastricht.
F.
Cörvers (2006), Forecasting Skills and Labour Market Needs, Statements
and Comments, in: ÖSB Consulting, IES, Baltic International Centre for
Economic Policy Studies, EU, in cooperation with the Finnish Ministry of
Labour, Report for the Mutual Learning Programme of the European
Employment Strategy, European Commission - DG Employment, Social Affairs
and Equal Opportunities, Forecasting Skill and Labour Market Needs,
Helsinki, 8-9 June 2006, pp. 117-121.
F.
Cörvers and A. Dupuy (2006), Explaining the Occupational Structure of
Dutch Sectors of Industry, 1988-2003, ROA-W-2006/7E, Working Paper,
Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market, Maastricht.
F.
Cörvers, B. Kriechel, R. Montizaan (2006), Scenario-analyse van de
vervangingsvraag tot 2010, ROA-W-2006/1, Working Paper,
Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt, Maastricht.
F.
Cörvers and M. Hensen (2005), Forecasting regional labour market
developments by occupation and education, in: F. van Oort, M. Thissen, L.
van Wissen (eds), A survey of spatial economic planning models in the
Netherlands. Theory, application and evaluation,
NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 117-133.
F.
Cörvers and H. Heijke (2004),
Forecasting the labour market by
occupation and education: Some key issues, Working Paper, Research
Centre for Education and the Labour Market, ROA-W-2004/4E, Maastricht.
F.
Cörvers (2003), Labour market forecasting in the Netherlands: a top-down
approach, in: S.L. Schmidt, K. Schömann, M. Tessaring (eds.), Early
identification of skill needs in
Europe,
Cedefop Reference Series, Vol. 40, Thessaloniki, pp. 72-83.
F.
Cörvers, A. de Grip and H. Heijke (2002), Beyond manpower planning: a
labour market model for the Netherlands and its forecasts to 2006, in: M.
Neugart and K. Schömann (eds.), Forecasting Labour Markets in OECD
countries, Edward Elgar, pp. 185-223.
P. Marey,
A. de Grip and F. Cörvers (2001),
Forecasting the Labour Markets for
Research Scientists and Engineers in the European Union, Working
Paper, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market, ROA-W-2001/3E,
Maastricht.
Human capital and international competitiveness
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.
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 (2008), O&O en bètatechnici [R&D and
science and technology workers], Economisch Statistische Berichten,
Vol. 93, p. 337.
F. Cörvers, H. Heijke and E. Lintjens (2007),
What do highly able graduates from the Netherlands decide after their
studies: Going abroad, starting a PhD, or both?, paper presented at
the 2007 conference of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE),
Oslo.
F. Cörvers and 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.
F. Cörvers and J. Coenen (2007),
Bètatechnici in
Research & Development en innovatie: Nederland in internationaal
perspectief [Science and technology workers in Research & Development and
innovation: the Netherlands in an international perspective], in: A. de
Grip and W. Smits, Technomonitor 2007, Report for the Platform
Bèta Techniek, The Hague, pp. 81-105.
F. Cörvers, H. Heijke en E.
Lintjens (2007),
Is er een drainage van bètatechnisch toptalent naar het
buitenland? [Does the brain drain of science and technology top talents to
foreign countries exist?], in A. de Grip en W. Smits (eds.), Technotopics
II, Essays over onderwijs en arbeidsmarkt voor bètatechnici, Platform
Bèta Techniek en Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt, Den Haag en
Maastricht, pp. 103-113.
J. van
Loo en F. Cörvers (2004), Internationale kennisstromen [International
knowledge spill-overs], in: CBS, Kennis en economie [Knowledge and
the economy], Heerlen/Voorburg, pp. 58-71.
J.G.F.
Cörvers
(1999),
The Impact of Human Capital on the International Competitiveness and
Trade Performance of Manufacturing Sectors, Research Centre for
Education
and the Labour Market, Dissertation Series, no. 2, Maastricht University.
F. Cörvers and T. Reininga (1998),
The Dutch Factor
Content of Human and Physical Capital: A Test of the HOV model,
Research Memorandum, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market,
ROA-RM-1998/1E, Maastricht.
F. Cörvers (1998), Sector-specific, intermediate and high
skills and their impact on productivity and growth in manufacturing
sectors of the European Union, in: Vocational education and training -
the European research field, Background report, Volume I, Thessaloniki,
pp. 245-269; Summary in M. Tessaring, Training for a Changing Society,
CEDEFOP, Thessaloniki, 1998.
F. Cörvers, and A. de Grip (1997),
Explaining Trade in
Industrialized Countries by Country-Specific Human Capital Endowments,
Economic Modelling, Vol. 14, pp. 395-416.
F. Cörvers, (1997),
The Impact of Human Capital on Labour
Productivity in Manufacturing Sectors of the European Union, Applied
Economics, Vol. 29, pp. 975-987.
F. Cörvers, A. de Grip and J. van Loo (1997), The
Provision, Employment and Educational Attainment of Technically Skilled
Workers across Industrialised Countries, Report for the Dutch Ministry
of Economic Affairs, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market,
ROA-R-1997/5E, Maastricht.
F.
Cörvers, A. de Grip and J.P. Orbon (1995), Concurrentiekracht,
Productiviteit en Human Capital: een vergelijking tussen Nederland en
Duitsland [Competitiveness, Productivity and Human Capital: a comparison
between the Netherlands and Germany], Maandschrift Economie, Vol.
59, pp. 221-241.
Intergenerational income mobility
Centraal Schriftelijk Examen
Economie VWO (2007), opgave over inkomensmobiliteit, gebaseerd op
F. Cörvers (2000),
Inkomensmobiliteit tussen generaties: laagste inkomensklassen weinig
mobiel, Index: feiten en cijfers over onze samenleving, Vol
7, No. 7, pp. 30-31.
F. Cörvers
(2004),
Income mobility of successive generations, in SCP/CBS (2004),
The poor
side of the Netherlands, Results from the Dutch ‘Poverty Monitor’
1997-2003, The Hague, pp. 120-124.
Interview in: H. Smeets
(2001),
De
tweede Gouden Eeuw komt eraan, NRC Handelsblad, 19 april, p. 31.
Discussion on website ESB:
E.J.S. Plug, De statistische rol van
het ouderlijk inkomen; F. Cörvers en I. de Loo,
Een straf selectiemechanisme?, 21 maart 2001.
F. Cörvers and I. de Loo
(2001),
Inkomensmobiliteit tussen generaties [Income mobility between
generations], Economisch Statistische Berichten, Vol. 86, pp.
264-266.
F. Cörvers (2000),
Inkomensmobiliteit tussen generaties: laagste inkomensklassen weinig
mobiel [Income mobility between generations: little mobility in lowest
income groups], Index: feiten en cijfers over onze samenleving, Vol
7, No. 7, pp. 30-31.
F. Cörvers
(2000), Inkomensmobiliteit tussen huishoudens met lage inkomens van
generatie op generatie [Income mobility between low-income households from
one generation to the next],
Armoedemonitor 2000, Social and
Cultural Planning Office/ Statistics Netherlands, The Hague, pp. 93-103.
J.G.F.
Cörvers (2000), Als je voor een dubbeltje geboren bent... [If
you are born poor…],
Jaarboek Welvaartsverdeling 2000, Statistics
Netherlands, Voorburg/Heerlen, pp. 63-66.
Corporatism and economic performance
F. Cörvers and A.P. van Veen (1995),
On the Measurement of Corporatism, Labour, Vol. 9, pp. 423-442.
F. Cörvers and A.P. van Veen (1992), Corporatisme en Economische
Ontwikkeling [Corporatism and Economic Development], Economisch Statistische
Berichten, Vol. 77, pp. 1189-1193.
