Economics

Aleid Brouwer
I am Aleid Brouwer, I work as a lecturer at the Faculty of Spatial Science at the University of Groningen and as a full professor at the NHL Stenden University of Applied Science in Leeuwarden. My Aletta research focusses first on ‘housing solutions for an aging population’; answering questions such as where do older adults want to live, what kind of whishes do they have, can they afford to age in place, are they prepared to age in place, do they have the social network to age in place? The second focus is on ‘who cares for the informal care giver’, what are the effects of the participation society for elderly and for the people who will do the caretaking, What are the effect for the caregiver on the long term, in work life balance, career perspectives and health and how can employers take care of their employees that might be overburdened.

Extra keyword: Informal Care

Agnieszka Postepska
I am an Assistant Professor in the Economics, Econometrics and Finance Department at the University of Groningen. My main research interests lie in the field of applied microeconomics. In particular, I am interested in labor, migration, development and education economics. My current research focuses on immigrants in the US, with a focus on human capital transmission, occupational networks and relative position of immigrant groups on the labor market as well as labor force participation of women in the Netherlands. With respect to public health, I am interested in the interplay of health and the labor market. In particular I'm interested in how flexible employment forms mediate the adverse effects of health on labor market outcomes.

Viola Angelini
Viola Angelini is Full Professor in the Economics of Household Behaviour and Aletta Jacobs Chair at the Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance and coordinator of the theme Justice of the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health, focusing on socio-economic inequalities in health. In her research, she tries to understand what drives differences in individual physical, mental and financial well-being in adulthood and at older ages by taking a life-cycle perspective and using large scale individual-level data, both from survey and administrative sources. She maintains a large network of national and international collaborations: she is research fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), the Network for Studies on Pensions, Ageing and Retirement (Netspar), the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), the Health Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) of the University of York and the Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies (CeRP) of the University of Turin. She holds a joint Ph.D. in Economics from the Universities of York and Padua.

Jan P.A.M. Jacobs
Jan P.A.M. Jacobs studied econometrics at the University of Groningen and played volleyball at the international level (46 caps). After a brief spell at Philips Medical Systems, he returned to his alma mater and graduated in 1998 on "Econometric Business Cycle Research".

He is an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen where he teaches Applied Macroecometrics for Research Masters students and supervises bachelors, master and PhD thesis.

He published more than forty articles in peer-reviewed journals in economics (Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics Dynamics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics), law (International Journal of Law in the Built Environment), and medicine (BMC Family Practice, Economics and Human Biology).

His current interests include empirical macroeconomics, including macroeconomic modeling, business cycles and financial crises, quantitative economic history, statistics in law, and health economics.

He is a Fellow of the Research Institute SOM (Systems, Organisation and Management), a fellow of the Centre for International Banking, Insurance and Banking (CIBIF), a fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, a fellow of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network, a research associate of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, and an associate fellow of CIRANO, Montréal, Canada.