About me

Ever since the last phase of my master in economics at the VU Amsterdam University, I have been involved in labour market and inequality research. Over the last twenty years, in various jobs, I have studied various topics in labour economics from different angles. I have not followed a standard academic career path. Instead I have been involved in policy analysis, first as a contract researcher at SEO Economics, simultaneously as PhD-student at Tinbergen Institute, subsequently as post doc researcher at the Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), then as program manager Labour Economics at CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis and currently as researcher/policy advisor at the Dutch public employment and social security office UWV. In all these position I have pursued high quality standards in my research and policy advise, as a result of which I have been able to publish some of my work in international academic journals. In all of my research policy relevance has been a key issue and many of my projects have had an impact on Dutch labour market policies, e.g. on the issue of flexible employment relations and the lower end of the labour market.  Since I value the distribution of research to a broad public, I also have experience as editor of the Dutch economic journal TPEdigitaal and of the website Flex Work Research Monitor. 

Education

Ph.D. Economics, University of Amsterdam  (promotores: prof. dr. Gerard van den Berg and prof. dr. Joop Hartog) - 2006

M.A. Economics, VU Amsterdam University (cum laude)  - 1998

Contact

Marloes Zijl 

UWV 

STRATEGIE BELEID EN KENNISCENTRUM

La Guardiaweg 94-114   1043 DL Amsterdam  

Building C 8e verdieping 

PO-box 58285,  1040 HG Amsterdam

E-mail: marloes.zijl@uwv.nl