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Balanced Labour Migration: Targeted Labour Migration Policy for General Well-Being
March 13 @ 4:00 am – 5:00 pm UTC+1
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Monique Kremer, University of Amsterdam
Discussants: Prof. Helen Schwenken (University of Osnabrück), TBC and Prof. Godfried Engbersen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) TBC
Description: Prof. Kremer will discuss how well-targeted labour migration policies can foster well-being and address skill shortages, focusing on the balance between policy goals and societal impacts.
Format: Online
About the speaker:
Monique Kremer is chair of the Advisory Council on Migration and endowed professor of Active Citizenship at the University of Amsterdam. She has been affiliated with the Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare, Utrecht University and the Scientific Council for Government Policy. Her research focuses on the labour market, labour migration and the practice of the welfare state in the super-diverse city.
From 2004 to March 2020, Monique was senior research fellow at the Scientific Council for Government Policy. At the WRR, Monique contributed to the reports The welfare state reweighted, Identification with the Netherlands (2007), Less pretension, more ambition. Development aid that makes a difference (2010), Making Migration Work. The future of labour migration in the EU (2012), How unequal is the Netherlands? (2014), Mastering the Robot (2015), For the sake of security (2017), The Fall of the Middle Class? The stable and vulnerable middle (2017) and Better work. The new social mission (2020).
