F. Cörvers
Professor Frank Cörvers (1966) combines his chair in Demographic Transition, human capital and employment at the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (SBE) with the Human Capital in the Region research programme at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA). Furthermore he is member of the ROA management team and director of the Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE) at Maastricht University.
Among other positions, he is a member of the supervisory board of Gilde Opleidingen, a member of the Social Demography Expert Group at Statistics Netherlands, and affiliated with the institute for cross-border cooperation and mobility ITEM, the migration network MACIMIDE, and the socio-economic knowledge institute Neimed at the Open University.
Frank Cörvers studied general economics at the universities of Maastricht and Hannover and obtained his doctorate at Maastricht University on the impact of education and training on the international competitiveness of manufacturing sectors. Subsequently he was employed as a lecturer at the School of Business and Economics of Maastricht University, and as a researcher, project leader and manager at Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and ROA.
His most recent publications address issues such as the quality and relevance of vocational education, migration and brain drain, regional labour markets, and the quantity and quality aspects of the teacher labour market. He has published dozens of research reports for commissioners at ministries, provinces, the European Union, the OECD and the World Bank. He is frequently consulted as an expert on education and labour market issues by for example ministries, national councils and various news media.
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Expertise
Labour market forecasting; Geographic mobility; Demographic transitions; Shrinking regions; Transition between the labour market and the education system in the region; Regional labour demand; Teacher labour market
Publications
Recent key publications
- Sivonen, S., Mertens, P., Kramer, S., Didden, B., Melin, P., & Cörvers, F. (2025). Mobility and Integrated Labour Markets for Third-country Nationals in Greater Copenhagen: Barriers to cross-border labour mobility for TCNs – learning from other EU cross-border regions. OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/ba2a4777-en
- Ruijs, N., Bles, P., Bransen, D., Camphuijsen, M., Cörvers, F., de Vries, P., Ehren, M., Griep, M., van Klaveren, C., Rongen, T., Stolp, T., & de Wolf, I. (2024). Kansrijke interventies om leraren aan te trekken en te behouden. Education Lab. ROA External Reports https://education-lab.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Literatuurstudie-Kansrijke-interventies-om-leraren-aan-te-trekken-en-te-behouden_september-2024-1.pdf
- Polipciuc, M., Cörvers, F., & Montizaan, R. (2023). Peers’ race in adolescence and voting behavior. Economics of Education Review, 97, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2023.102486
- Cörvers, F., & Mayhew, K. (2021). Regional inequalities: causes and cures. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 37(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/graa067
- Cörvers, F., Reinold, J., Chakkar, S., Bolzonella, F., & Ronda, V. (2021). Literature review labour migration. ROA. ROA Technical Reports No. 005ROA External Reports Vol. WODC rapport No. 3248 https://doi.org/10.26481/umarot.2021005
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Work for third parties
- Penningmeester at Stichting Studium Generale
- Lid van raad van toezicht at Gilde Opleidingen
Other activities
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the BiBB (Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung), Bonn
Advisory Board Member BMAS Skilled Worker Monitoring of the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities (WAC SGW)
Member of the Expert Group on Social Demography, Statistics Netherlands
Additional roles & tasks
Professor