The Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) is a research institute of the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, and aims to improve the understanding of the relationship between education and the labour market.
ROA's research efforts intend to make a significant contribution to both academic and societal discussions on the effects of knowledge and skills acquired in education and in other learning situations on occupational careers, performance within organisations and the development of the economy.

News

Thomas Dohmen forthcoming in the Economic Journal
A paper by ROA director Thomas Dohmen and Armin Falk (University of Bonn) You Get What You Pay For: Incentives and Selection in the Education System, has been accepted for publication by the Economic Journal.
Pierson medal 2009 awarded to Thomas Dohmen
The ‘Pierson’ medal is an initiative of the Mr. N.G. Pierson Fund Foundation and is awarded biennially to a young, promising researcher in the field of (financial) economics, who is on the verge of an international break through. The Pierson prize 2009 is awarded to Prof. Thomas Dohmen for his productive and excellent research in the field of applied micro-economics and in particular the labour market, personnel and organizational economics, behavioral economics and psychology of incentives.
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Prof. Dr. J.M.G. Leune Penning awarded to Jaap Dronkers
Prof. Jaap Dronkers has been professor at Maastricht University since last December 1st 2009. Until that time he was professor at the European University Institute in Florence. Here he focused on the analysis of the quality and comparability of national education systems for years. For his pioneering work in this area he was awarded the Prof. Dr. J.M.G. Leune Penning at the expert meeting "Focus on Facts" on December 9th 2009.
» read speech Han Leune (in dutch)
» read report Focus on Facts (in dutch)
» presentation Jaap Dronkers (in dutch)
Thomas Dohmen forthcoming in the American Economic Review
A paper by ROA director Thomas Dohmen and Armin Falk (University of Bonn) Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting – Productivity, Preferences and Gender, has been accepted for publication by the American Economic Review.
Jaap Dronkers newly appointed Professor
Jaap Dronkers newly appointed in International comparative research on educational performance and social inequality » read more in dutch

Recent Reports

Competencies and Early Labour Market Careers of Higher Education Graduates
The HEGESCO project examines to what extent HE graduates are able to meet the demands of today’s knowledge economy. It identifies competencies that are required of HE graduates by employers and analyzes the extent to which HE provides a solid basis for developing these competencies (see www.hegesco.org for more information).
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Recent Research Memoranda

ROA-RM-2010/3 Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting - Productivity, Preferences and Gender, Thomas Dohmen Armin Falk » download pdf
ROA-RM-2010/2 You get what you pay for: Incentives and Selection in the Education System
Thomas Dohmen Armin Falk » download pdf

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