A. Künn

Annemarie Künn-Nelen is associate professor at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour market (ROA). She started her PhD studies in Economics at the Maastricht University and worked as a researcher at ROA. In her PhD thesis, she investigated the consequences of part-time employment for workers’ careers, firm productivity and children’s cognitive development. In addition, she also participated in several research projects on human capital development. After finishing her PHD, she worked for about a year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Lehrstuhl für Gesundheitsökonomie und -management of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal where she was responsible for a large EU project investigating the relation between labour market participation and health. Since January 2013, Annemarie Künn-Nelen started as research leader at the ROA.

As of January 2021, Annemarie is responsible for shaping the research agenda for fundamental and commissioned research in the field of ‘Lifelong learning and employability’. Moreover, she coordinates all ROA’s teaching activities, teaches herself and supervises several master and PhD candidates. She works on projects related to lifelong learning, employability and career development with a focus on groups at risk in the labour market (e.g., working disabled, low-educated, flex workers and elderly). Some examples are: Lifelong learning monitor, Dutch skills survey, Future proof human capital, Skills2capabilities. Annemarie is also involved in the Maastricht University Academy for Lifelong Development. 

In her research, Annemarie addresses policy relevant topics in the field of labour, health and family economics, by monitoring lifelong learning and employability at the country and sectoral level, as well as by developing field, survey and discrete choice experiments to study how individuals make choices in the fields of (adult) education and work. Annemarie closely works together with (organisational) psychologists and educational researchers.

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Expertise

Human capital development; Labour force participation; Employability; Labour market mobility; Labour market forecasting; Allocation of skills in the labour market; Discrete choice experiments and field experiments in the fields of education and work.

Publications

Publications in international journals

  • Kuczynska, J., Kunn-Nelen, A., & Fleuren, B. P. I. (2025). When you learn, you grow: Concretizing pe3rson-centricity in workplace learning. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 18(1), 151-155.
    https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2024.66
  • Somers, M. A., Muffels, R. J. A., & Kuenn-Nelen, A. (2025). (Un)conditional Basic Income and Participation Income: A Review of its Micro- and Macro-Economic Effects. De Economist, 173(1), 205-244. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10645-024-09447-1
  • Künn-Nelen, A. (2025). Employability: the race between skills obsolescence and lifelong learning. In: Handbook of Education and Work. M. H. J. Wolbers , & D. Verhaest (Eds.), (pp. 293-316). Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Van Landeghem, B., Dohmen, T., Risa Hole , A., & Künn, A. (2024). The value of commuting time, flexibility, and job security: Evidence from current and recent jobseekers in Flanders. Labour Economics, 91, 102631.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102631
  • Dicks, A., Künn-Nelen, A., Levels, M., & Montizaan, R. (2024). Automation risks of vocational training programs and early careers in the Netherlands. Acta Sociologica, 67(4), 507-528.
    https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993241250277
  • Poulissen, D., De Grip, A., Fouarge, D., & Künn-Nelen, A. (2023). Employers' willingness to invest in the training of temporary versus permanent workers: A discrete choice experiment. Labour Economics, 84, Article 102430.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102430
  • Theunissen, P., Künn, A., & Rybczynski, K. (2022). Self-employment and motherhood: Labor market outcomes of self-employment in early childhood years. In S. Taneja (Ed.), Academy of Management Proceedings (1 ed., Vol. 2022). Academy of Management.
    https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2022.229

Dutch publications