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R.J.A. (Ruud) Muffels

Full Professor Socio-Economics (Labour Market and Social Security)
ruud.j.muffels@uvt.nl

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Sociology

Expertise

Inequality, Income and Poverty Dynamics, Comparative Welfare State Analysis, Labour Market Dynamics, Flexicurity, Social Security, Social Policy, Panel Methodology

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Publications

Most recent publications

Dekker, R., Muffels, R.J.A., & Wilthagen, A.C.J.M. (2010). Werkzekerheid in plaats van baanzekerheid? Het Nederlandse arbeidsmarktbeleid in dynamisch perspectief. Arbeid in crisis? (pp. 63-78). Den Haag: Boom Uitgevers. Further information
Fouarge, D.J.A.G., Manzoni, A., Muffels, R.J.A., & Luijkx, R. (2010). Childbirth and cohort effects on mother's labour supply: A comparative study using life-history data for Germany, the Netherlands and Great-Britain. Work, Employment and Society. Further information
Manzoni, A., Luijkx, R., & Muffels, R.J.A. (2010). Explaining differences in labour market transitions between panel and life-course data in West-Germany. Quality and Quantity. Further information
Chung, H., Muffels, R.J.A., & Wilthagen, I.H.J.M. (2009). Defining and testing flexicurity indicators in Europe: How well performs the Dutch labour market comparably? pp. 1-70. Tilburg: Tilburg University/OSA. Further information
Fouarge, D.J.A.G., & Muffels, R.J.A. (2009). Working part-time in the British, German and Dutch labour market: Scarring for the wage career? Schmollers Jarhbuch, 129(2), 1-10. Further information

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Publications

Most recent publications

Dekker, R., Muffels, R.J.A., & Wilthagen, A.C.J.M. (2010). Werkzekerheid in plaats van baanzekerheid? Het Nederlandse arbeidsmarktbeleid in dynamisch perspectief. Arbeid in crisis? (pp. 63-78). Den Haag: Boom Uitgevers. Further information
Fouarge, D.J.A.G., Manzoni, A., Muffels, R.J.A., & Luijkx, R. (2010). Childbirth and cohort effects on mother's labour supply: A comparative study using life-history data for Germany, the Netherlands and Great-Britain. Work, Employment and Society. Further information
Manzoni, A., Luijkx, R., & Muffels, R.J.A. (2010). Explaining differences in labour market transitions between panel and life-course data in West-Germany. Quality and Quantity. Further information
Chung, H., Muffels, R.J.A., & Wilthagen, I.H.J.M. (2009). Defining and testing flexicurity indicators in Europe: How well performs the Dutch labour market comparably? pp. 1-70. Tilburg: Tilburg University/OSA. Further information
Fouarge, D.J.A.G., & Muffels, R.J.A. (2009). Working part-time in the British, German and Dutch labour market: Scarring for the wage career? Schmollers Jarhbuch, 129(2), 1-10. Further information

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Direct and indirect funding

NWO: Labour and job mobility according to retrospective life-course and prospective panel designs: a substantive and methodological comparison in five countries (PhD) (with R. Luijkx)

2007/2008: European Foundation Dublin: Flexibility and security over the lifecourse.

2007/2008: European Commission: Diversification of Employment and Working Time in Europe and Japan.

Collaboration

Flexicurity (contact: Wilthagen-UvT, NETSPAR (contact: Kapteyn-Bovenberg-UvT), WBS (contact: Colin Crouch: Warwick University), University of Essex (EPAG consortium; Richard Berthoud, Stephen Jenkins: University of Essex), DIW-Berlin (research professor, contact: Gert Wagner, Joachim Frick), WZB (contact: Gunther Schmid), Melbourne University (contact: Bruce Headey, Mark Wooden), ANU Canberra (contact: Bob Goodin), Goteborg University (contact: Per Madsen)

External accreditation

Board of GUSTO (7th FWP EU; Coordinated by Warwick Business School)
Board of European Panel Analysis Group (EPAG, University of Essex)
Transitional Labour Markets Network (TLMNet; Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)
Board of TRANSWELL ? Transitions in Welfare and Employment Regimes
European Panel Users Network (EPUNET, University of Essex)
German Socio-Economic Panel Users Group (DIW, Berlin)
Membership of many International Academic associations

Journals: Work, Employment and Society (board since 2008)
Advisory Board Journal of Applied Social Science Studies (Schmoller?s Jahrbuch)

Recurrent reviewer of:
NWO project and programme proposals
Book proposals (e.g. Edward Elgar)

Consultant Household Panel Group (HILDA) University of Melbourne
Research Professor Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Consultant European Commission 19990-
Consultant EUROSTAT 1994-2003
Member Visitation Committee Belgium (Social and European Social Security Law Leuven)
Member German Evaluation Board (IAB-Research Institute)

Teaching

Labour market

R.J.A. (Ruud) Muffels teaches the following subjects:

Labour Market, Inequality and Income Dynamics (400807) Further information

Other activities

PhD's completed:

Gelissen, J. (2001) Worlds of Welfare, Worlds of Consent? Public Opinion on the Welfare State, (with W. Arts).
Fouarge, D. (2002), Minimum Protection, Subsidiarity and its Application in European Social Policy (with J. Berghman).
Schils, T. (2005), The Dynamics of the Labor market Behavior of Senior Workers, A Comparative Study.
Vandecasteele, L. (2007), Dynamic Inequalities. The Impact of Stratification Determinants for Poverty and Income Dynamics in European Welfare Regimes (defended at 10 September 2007).
Pavlopoulos, D. (2007) Wage Mobility, Income Inequality and the Life Course. Modelling the effects of life events on wage mobility and income inequality based on international panel-data, Tilburg University (With Vermunt); (defended at 12 September 2007).
Dekker, R. (2007), Flexible labor, institutions and economic mobility (defended at 30 November 2007).

Current:
Manzoni, A. (2005-2009), NWO: Labour and job mobility according to retrospective life-course and prospective panel designs: a substantive and methodological comparison in five countries
Heejung Chung (2005-2008), Flexibility and Income and Work Security Over the Life Course: A Comparative Study
Petrovici, C. (2006-2009). Early Retirement, Active Ageing and the Lifecourse (grant from Ministry of Education Luxembourg)

Contact details
Room P1133
PO Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg