European Labour Market for Academic Graduates - 2009

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.

Prof. 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 Committee on Labour Statistics and the Advisory Committee on Education Statistics. He is Secretary of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) and a member of the Advisory Council on Social Statistics.

P. van Eijs and H. Heijke (2000), Mismatch between Occupation and Education and the Costs and Benefits of Job-related Training, in: H. Heijke and J. Muysken (Eds), Education and Training in a Knowledge-based Economy, Houndsmills/London/New York: Macmillan, pp. 159-189

H. Heijke and G. Ramaekers (2000), Informatics Engineering and Business Informatics in the ICT Society: Substitutes or Complements?, in: L. Borghans, W. H. Gijselaers, R. G. Milter and J. E. Stinson (Eds), Educational Innovation in Economics and Business V, Business Education for the Changing Workplace, Dordrecht/Boston/LondonKluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 85-109.

H. Heijke (2001), Vocational Education from an Economic Point of View, in: L.F.M. Nieuwenhuis and W.J. Nijhof (Eds), The Dynamics of VET and HRD Systems, Enschede: Twente University Press, pp. 169-180.

R. Dekker, A. de Grip, H. Heijke (2002), The effects of training and overeducation on career mobility in a segmented labour market, International Journal of Manpower, 23 (2), pp. 106-125.

H. Heijke, A. Matheeuwsen, E. Willems (2002), Clustering Educational Categories in a Heterogeneous Labour Market, Education Economics, 10 (3), pp. 89-108.

F. Cörvers, A. de Grip, 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; Measuring and Tackling Mismatches, Cheltenham (UK)/Northampton MA (USA): Edward Elagar, pp. 185-223.

H. Heijke, C. Meng, C. Ris (2003), Fitting to the Job: the role of generic and vocational competencies in adjustment and performance, Labour Economics,10 (2), pp. 215-229.

H. Heijke, G. Ramaekers, C. Meng (2003), An investigation into the role of human capital competences and their pay off, International Journal of Manpower, 24(7), pp. 750-773.

L. Borghans and H. Heijke (2004), Promoting the macro-efficiency of vocational education?, in: W. J. Nijhof and W. van Esch (Eds), Unraveling Policy, Power, Process and Performance: The Formative Evaluation of the Dutch Adult and Vocational Education Act, ‘s-Hertogenbosch: CINOP, pp. 79-98.

A. Ammermüller, H. Heijke, L. Wössmann (2005), Schooling quality in Eastern Europe: Educational production during transition, Economics of Education Review, 24 (5), pp. 579-599.

H. Heijke, G. Ramaekers and C. Ris (2005), Do Business Administration Studies Offer Better Preparation for Supervisory Jobs than Traditional Economic Studies?, Education Economics, 13 (3), pp. 315-329.

J. Semeijn, R. van der Velden, H. Heijke, C. van der Vleuten, E. Boshuizen (2005), The role of education in selection and allocation on the labour market: An empirical study in the medical field, Education Economics, 13 (4). pp. 449-477.

Judith Semeijn, Rolf van der Velden, Hans Heijke, Cees van der Vleuten, Henny Boshuizen (2006), Competence indicators in academic education and early labour market success of graduates in health sciences, Journal of Education and Work, 19 (4), pp. 383-413.

Christoph Meng, Hans Heijke (2005), Student time allocation, the learning environment and the acquisition of competencies., ROA-RM-2005/1E, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market, Maastricht.

Hans Heijke, Christoph Meng, Ger Ramaekers (2005), Activating learning environments, student time use and competence acquisition – A study among European Economic and Business Administration students, Invited paper presented at the conference on Educational Economics at University of Tartu, 26th -27th August 2005, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market, Maastricht.

Hans Heijke, Christoph Meng (2006), The effects of higher education programme characteristics on allocation and performance of the graduates: A European view, ROA-RM-2006/4E, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market, Maastricht.

Hans Heijke, Christoph Meng (2006), Discipline-specific and academic competences of the higher educated: their value in the labour market and their acquisition in education, paper presented on the occasion of the departure of Wim J. Nijhof, University of Twente, 29 September 2006, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market, Maastricht.