Research projects

The OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is an initiative of the OECD that assists governments in assessing, monitoring and analysing the level and distribution of skills among their adult populations as we...

This project focuses on the match between education and occupation, the substitution processes in the labour market, and generates the mid-term forecasts for the labour market perspectives for about 100 educational programmes and occupations, 35 l...

Since the early nineties ROA has conducted research among recent school-leavers in most sectors of education in the Netherlands. The surveys among different groups of school-leavers have been strongly standardized and serve as a monitoring instrum...

The Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) collaborates with eight European partner institutions in the Skills2Capabilities project, funded by Horizon Europe.

This project aims to bring together a diverse set of related skills mi...

In a production process, the execution of tasks leads to output in the form of products or services. Some tasks are performed by people, while other tasks are performed by machines. Human tasks, which are bundled in occupations, and machine tasks ...

Technequality aims to improve our understanding of the relation between current technological innovations (robotisation, automation, and digitisation) and social inequalities (income, skills, education, well-being and health) in European countries.

This innovative research project investigates the integration of generative AI into medical practice, particularly focusing on its utility in enhancing the diagnostic capabilities of general practitioners in the Netherlands, Kenya, and Indonesia. ...

This research project empirically assesses the consequences of implementing artificial intelligence for employment, productivity, quality of working life, and skills requirements of jobs. We study how ai transforms the work of human experts in var...

The Netherlands Cohort Study on Education (Dutch abbreviation: ‘NCO’) uses longitudinal register data on track placement of cohorts of students in primary and secondary education. This study is instigated and financed by the Netherlands Organi...

This project monitors the school to work transition and labour market outcomes of alumni from Maastricht University. We make use of the Nationale Alumni Enquete (NAE) for information over alumni 1.5 years after graduation and have our own alumni s...