meaning & job quality
Job Attribute Dissatisfaction and Turnover: New Job or No Job? (with Davide Lunardon) Latest version
Forthcoming at Labour Economics

regional & migration
Hometown Glory – the Benefits of Location-Specific Capital for Labour Market Outcomes of Vocational Education Graduates (with Tineke Reitsma and Viktor Venhorst)
Population, Space and Place, 2026, 32(2)

meaning & job quality
The Economics of Meaningful Work: A Scoping Review (with Martijn Hendriks)
Handbook of Work Meaning and Motivation, 2026, p. 151-184

regional & migration
Leaving for Good or Coming Back? Identifying Long-Term Migration Trajectories of Rural Young Adults in the Netherlands (with Tineke Reitsma, Tialda Haartsen and Bettina Bock)
Population, Space and Place, 2025, 31(8)

meaning & job quality
Work Meaningfulness and Effort (with Milena Nikolova)
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2025, 119, 102460
Earlier version: IZA Discussion Paper No 17182, 2024

technological change
Just Another Cog in the Machine? A Worker-Level View of Robotization and Tasks (with Milena Nikolova and Anthony Lepinteur)
Economica, 2025, 92, 1101-1148
Earlier version: GLO Discussion Paper No 1350, 2023

technological change
Learning the Right Skill: Vocational Curricula and Returns to Skills  (with Matloob Piracha and Guy Tchuente)
Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43(4), 665-694
Earlier version: GLO Discussion Paper No. 979.
Media: Dagblad van het Noorden, Noordhollands Dagblad

technological change
Tasks, Wages and New Technologies
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2025, 64(3): 434-457

technological change     meaning & job quality
Robots, Meaning, and Self-Determination (with Milena Nikolova and Boris Nikolaev), 2024,
Research Policy, 2024, 53(5), 104987
Earlier version: GLO Discussion Paper No. 1191.
Media: The Economist, Brookings, The Register, TechCrunch, ESB

technological change     regional & migration
The Geography of New Technology: Exposure to AI, Software and Robots in European Regional Labour Markets (with Sierdjan Koster).
Italian Labour Law E-Journal, 2024, 17(2), 1–28.
Special Issue consisting of papers from members of the of Panoptiwork network.
Media: The Financial Analyst

meaning & job quality
What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care About it (with Milena Nikolova)
Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101847.
Media: Brookings, Chronicle of Higher Education, Weekendavisen (DK)

technological change
Automation and Training: Technical Upskilling or People Skills Development? (with Bjorn de Kruijf)
Revise and Resubmit

regional & migration
Tachtig procent jongeren blijft in zelfde provincie wonen (with Harm-Jan Rouwendal)
Economisch Statistische Berichten, 2026, Forthcoming
Media: Binnenlands Bestuur, BNR Nieuwsradio, Property NL, NPO Radio 1, Reformatorisch Dagblad, Dagblad van het Noorden, Omrop Fryslân, RTV Noord, VG Visie, Publiek Denken

technological change
Voor de meeste starters verandert de arbeidsmarkt nog niet
Economisch Statistische Berichten, 2026, 111(4859), 317-317.
Media: NRC

regional & migration
Onderwijstalent in de regio: arbeidsmarktpatronen van recent afgestudeerde leraren. 2024. Report commissioned by Noordelijke Educatieve Alliantie
Media: Friesch Dagblad 

meaning & job quality
Waardevol werk in de regio. [A regional approach to the subjective value of work] (with Richard Rijnks and Arjen Edzes)
Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken, 2023, 39(4):462–83. 

regional & migration
Talentmonitor: dynamiek op de Noordelijke arbeidsmarkt. 2022. Report commissioned by Nationaal Programma Groningen.
Media: Dagblad van het Noorden: 1, 2 Leeuwarder Courant, Podcast TalentTalk