How do firms search for and screen workers? When do the best workers match with the best firms?

📢 Policy Work We’re proud to share that Eric Bartelsman has been appointed by the Raad van State as an external member of the Expert Group for Independent Budgetary Oversight (Expertisekring Miljoenennota/Onafhankelijk begrotingstoezicht).

🎙️Media Spotlight Over the last weeks, several major media outlets featured research by our PhD student Sander de Vries on inequality of opportunity in the Netherlands.

👥 Conference Participation and Prize We are thrilled to share that first-year PhD student Thao Le has been awarded the Best Flash Talk and Poster Presentation Award at the 2025 ISMS Marketing Science Conference in Washington D.C.! 🏆

👥 Conference Participation We’re proud to share that José L. Moraga-González, Professor of Microeconomics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, was one of the keynote speakers at the 2025 Lingnan University (Hong Kong) International Conference on Competition Policy and Industrial Organization.

We’re proud to share that Bas van der Klaauw, Professor of Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Director at the Tinbergen Institute, was the keynote speaker at the 19th Belgian Day of Labour Economists in Bruxelles.

👥 Conference Organization Our development group organized the 14th Dutch Development Economics (#DuDE2025) Network Conference this year.

How does trade liberalization shape firm behavior? In a recent publication in Industrial and Corporate Change, Sabien Dobbelaere and Quint Wiersma investigate how lowering tariffs, such as those following China’s WTO accession, impacts firms’ product and labor market power.

Do tax breaks attract talent? In a recently published paper in the Americal Economic Journal: Applied Economics, our colleagues Lisa Marie Timm and @mullerpaul.bsky.social, together with Massimo Giuliodori, explore how a Dutch tax exemption scheme influenced international migration.

🎙️Media Spotlight We're proud to congratulate Pierre Koning, full professor of Economics of Social Insurance and the Labor Market at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, on his recent media engagements!

👥 Conference Participation We are proud to announce that Nursena Aksunger, PhD candidate at VU Amsterdam School of Business and Economics, has been selected as one of only three young scientists from the Netherlands to participate in the 8th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Economic Sciences!

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