Andries de Grip

Andries de Grip is Head of Research on Employment and Training at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Chair of the Board of NSI, and Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht University. He has been project leader for a large number of research projects on behalf of several Dutch Ministries, Public Employment Services, the European Commission, OECD, sectors of industry and several other organizations. He graduated ('cum laude') from the Free University of Amsterdam where he also obtained his PhD.

He published many studies in the field of labour economics, in particular with regard to human capital development and obsolescence,  employability and labour market participation, the relationship between technological developments and skill demands, skill mismatches, overeducation and labour mobility.He has published over 40 international refereed articles and book chapters in amongst others Applied Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Economics Letters, Economic Modeling, Economics of Education Review, Research Policy, R&D Management, International Labour Review, International Journal of HRM, Labour, Journal of Forecasting.

Works on:

  • Job-worker mismatch and cognitive decline
    8 April 2009, Article

    We have used longitudinal test data on various aspects of people's cognitive abilities to analyse whether overeducated workers are more vulnerable to a decline in their cognitive abilities, and undereducated workers are less vulnerable. We found that a job-worker mismatch induces a cognitive decline with respect to immediate and delayed recall abilities, cognitive flexibility and verbal fluency. Our findings indicate that, to some extent, it is the adjustment of the ability level of the overeducated and undereducated workers that adjusts initial job-worker mismatch. This adds to the relevance of preventing overeducation, and shows that being employed in a challenging job contributes to workers' cognitive resilience.