Prof. Dr. Hans Heijke
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h.heijke@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Hans Heijke is Professor in the Department of
Economics at Maastricht University. He founded the Research Centre for
Education and the Labour Market (ROA) at Maastricht University in 1986
and has been its director until 2008. From 1969 until the founding of
the ROA he was affiliated with the Netherlands Economic Institute at
Rotterdam, where he held, from ‘74 on, the position of Head of the
Division of Labour Market Research. In 1970 he finished his studies in
economics at the University of Amsterdam and in 1979 he obtained his
doctorate at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
Hans Heijke has been a consultant of the OECD, a member
of the Committee for Educational Affairs of the Socio-Economic Council
(SER), a member of the Committee for Higher Vocational Education of the
Education Council, a
member of the Programming Council for Educational Research (PROO) of the
National Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), and a member of
the Advisory Committees on Labour Statistics and Education Statistics
and the Advisory Council on Social Statistics. He has been Secretary
of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) from 1993 until
2008.
His research interests are: educational and occupational labour markets;
higher education, vocational education and training, work-related
training and the labour market; competences, their acquisition in
education and training and their role in
the labour market; international
migration of labour.
Recent papers
Frank Cörvers, Hans Heijke, Erik 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 TIY Annual Workshop, Ghent, 5-8 September 2007; the 19th Annual Conference of EALE, Oslo, 20-22 September 2007; the 2nd International Conference on Educational Economics, Athens, 27-30 August 2008. Maastricht: Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market.
Hans Heijke (2008). Working on heterogeneous human capital, ROA-TR-2008/6. Maastricht: Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (English version of ‘Werken aan heterogeen menselijk kapitaal’, valedictory lecture presented on 16 May 2008 by Hans Heijke, Professor of Education and the Labour Market at Maastricht University).
Daniëlle Cloodt, Frank Cörvers, Hans Heijke, Jesper van Thor (2009).The impact of distance deterrence on the choice of field of study in vocational education in the Netherlands. Paper presented at ERSA-conference at Lodz, Poland, 26th August 2009.
Hans Heijke, Christoph Meng (2009). Identifying the role of discipline-specific and academic competencies of graduates in the labour market and their acquisition in education. Paper presented at the 2nd ELM conference at Maastricht University, 22-24 October 2009.
Denis de Crombrugghe, Henry Espinoza, Hans Heijke (2010). Job-training programmes with low completion rates: The case of Projoven-Peru, ROA-RM-2010/4. Maastricht: Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market.
Denis de Crombrugghe, Henry Espinoza, Hans Heijke (2010). Determinants of dropout behaviour in a job training programme for disadvantaged youth, ROA-RM-2010/8. Maastricht: Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market.
Recent publications
Ben Kriechel, Frank Cörvers, Hans Heijke (2008). Regional Labour Market Forecasts in the Netherlands, in: Claudia Knobel, Ben Kriechel, Alfons Schmidt (Eds), Regional Forecasting on Labour Markets, Muenchen, Mering: Rainer Hampp Verlag, p38-51.
Hans Heijke, Christoph Meng (2010). Discipline-specific and academic competences of the higher educated: their value in the labour market and their acquisition in education, in: Perspective Studienqualität, Themen und Forschungsergebnisse der HIS-Fachtagung “Studienqualität”, HIS Hochschul-Informations-System, W. Bertelsmann Verlag, Bielefeld, p263-277.
Hans Heijke, Christoph Meng, Ger Ramaekers (2010). Activating learning environments, student time use and competence acquisition. A study among European Economic and Business Administration Students, in: Jürgen Backhaus, Raul Eamets, Diana Eerma (eds), Economics of Education, Issues of Transition and Transformation, Wirtschaft: Forschung und Wissenschaft, Bd. 29, Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2010, pp. 75-111.
Hans Heijke, Christoph Meng (2011). The effects of higher education programme characteristics on allocation and performance of the graduates, Education Economics, 19 (1): 1-27.
Recent Dutch publications
Frank Cörvers, Hans Heijke en Erik Lintjens (2007). Is er een drainage van bètatechnisch toptalent naar het buitenland?, in: Andries de Grip en Wendy Smits (red.), Technotopics II, Essays over onderwijs en arbeidsmarkt voor bètatechnici, Den Haag: ROA/Platform Bèta Techniek, p103-113.
Hans Heijke, Christoph Meng, Ger Ramaekers (2008). De kans op leidinggeven voor afgestudeerde bètatechnici, in: Didier Fouarge, Andries de Grip (red.), Technotopics III, Essays over onderwijs en arbeidsmarkt voor bètatechnici, Den Haag: Platform Bèta Techniek, p45-57.
Daniëlle Bertrandt-Cloodt, Frank Cörvers, Hans Heijke, Jesper van Thor (2011), Verkenning van de invloed van reisafstand op de keuze voor een middelbare beroepsopleiding, ROA Technical Report, ROA-TR-2011/1, Maastricht: Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market.
