You are looking for staff, your vacancy remains open, you get zero responses. On the other hand, there are 1 million people in the Netherlands who are on the sidelines. While at the same time we have the lowest unemployment rate, that's just the people who are registered at the UWV. What goes wrong here? Paul van der Aa, lecturer in Inclusive Labor at the Hogeschool Rotterdam has been doing research for 25 years on how we can make the labor market more accessible to people in a vulnerable position.
Paul van der Aa has been a lecturer at Hogeschool Rotterdam, Knowledge Center Talent Development, since 2015. Besides managing the research program of the professorship, he coordinates the research line Inclusion of the knowledge center and is a member of the promotion voucher committee of Hogeschool Rotterdam. He is a member of the Urban Labor Market Knowledge Workshop. He is also part of the core team of the national lectors' platform Broad Platform Labor.
Inclusive labor market
By an inclusive labor market, we mean a labor market where everyone who wants to can participate in society through work based on their own talents. That means taking talents into account, but perhaps also disabilities, and in this way giving the largest possible group a place in the labor market.
Retrospective
In the 25 years that Paul van der Aa has been researching an inclusive labor market, there are two major differences. The first difference applies to everyone who works. The labor market has become a lot more complex and flexible. "Careers are less certain. You don't know at 18 what your career is going to look like, and that also makes it complicated for people looking for a place in the labor market."
Another important positive difference is the responsibility assumed for an inclusive labor market. Paul van der Aa: "When I started, this was mainly seen as a responsibility of the government. They have to solve this problem. Nowadays you see that increasingly broader coalitions are concerned about this. And last but not least, also employers and entrepreneurs who see their own role in ensuring opportunities for people in the labor market."
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