This study investigated the role of professional youth workers in tackling financial scarcity by identifying what preventive support services they deploy on this topic. Through an online survey, data were collected from the directors and managers of 15 professional youth work organizations operating …

‘International Hub Center, a connective student village in Maastricht.’ Can a university city like Maastricht do better in getting international students involved in the local community and making them prolong their stay to the benefit of the city? From his own experience as a foreign student the designer …

At the end of 2019, the Municipality of Rotterdam commissioned Humanitas ESSM to research the situation of male sex workers in the area of Rotterdam. This demographic often goes unnoticed in sex work-related policies and interventions by public authorities. The Municipality spotted their knowledge gap …

Rich versus poor, rural versus urbanites, workers versus managers, the autistic versus the “normal”. Despite systems to “enlighten” truth (such as the rational enlightenment that heralded the scientific revolution), we will always have to feel and believe. Our knowing will always remain temporary, until …

Although lifetime employment was once commonplace, the situation has changed dramatically over the last century. The group of precarious workers has increased, and with it, the size of the precariat. Although there is a body of research on how precarious workers perceive the effect of their precarity …

http://dx.doi.org/10.14261/postit/E878E1FB-39D2-4B34-AC3ABBEDA3DC35EFIn 2015 and 2016, Saxion University of Applied Sciences organized the 2nd and 3rd edition of the Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference (RIEC).Relatively peripheral border regions are often seen as less attractive for high …

Owing to the aging of Western societies, an increasing number of people over age 65 are now working in bridge employment. Research is needed to understand how job characteristics in bridge employment should be designed to support older employees’ productivity, considering potential declines in intra-individual …

Presentatie over flexibele arbeidsrelaties in Nederland, specifiek de uitzendkracht, payrolling en zzp'ers, en Duitsland, meer specifiek uitzendkrachten, Minijobs en Werkverträge. Vervolgens worden besproken de schijnconstructies die zich voordoen op de Europese arbeidsmarkt. Waarna ten slotte de poging …

In order to better understand the precursors of bridge employment, this study aimed to investigate whether individual action strategies in terms of selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC; Baltes & Baltes, 1990) are able to buffer the well-known negative impact of poor health on the intention …

This paper addresses one important mechanism through which the EU tries to improve the operation of its labour markets: the opening up of national borders for free worker movement within the EU. Free worker movement is a fundamental EU right; but EU enlargement begged the question of how and when to …