Academic Collaborative Center for an Inclusive Labor Market
An inclusive labor market that allows as many people as possible to participate and also provides valuable, sustainable, and rewarding work are important aspects of broad prosperity for society. In the Academic Collaborative Center for an Inclusive Labor Market, scientists and (societal) organizations come together to work on a labor market that works for everyone and where every talent can be developed and can contribute.
People who are gainfully employed feel better, have better health, a higher income, and more social contacts and development opportunities compared to people who cannot find or maintain employment. The working labor force is also highly essential in today's labor market, where aging population and fewer young people entering the workforce result in structural labor shortages. Without a sufficient number of people possessing the right knowledge and skills, important social transitions cannot be made. Yet, finding work is not a matter of course for everyone. Despite a large shortage in the labor market, there are still more than a million people who cannot find (sustainable) work or earn an insufficient income.
Working on Broad Prosperity
The ambition of the Academic Collaborative Center for an Inclusive Labor Market is to work on a labor market transition that can contribute as much as possible to broad prosperity, both socially and for the individual. Together with societal partners and stakeholders, the Collaborative Center focuses on the joint and co-created development of the knowledge and skills required to ensure that the labor market works for everyone. We jointly work towards better work, of a better and fair labor market, aimed at the future, in the interest of future generations, and in the light of a strongly aging society.
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Themes
Four connected themes are central to the agenda of the academic collaborative center.
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Partners
Working in co-creation with partners on questions in the academic collaborative center. What does that look like?
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Departments involved
An interdisciplinary network of researchers from various departments at Tilburg University involved in the academic collaborative center.
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News
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Different disciplines meet during matchmaking event
19th March 2024On March 7, the Digital Sciences for Society strategic program, in collaboration with TAISIG and the university-wide Academic Collaborative Centers, organized a matchmaking event. Researchers from the various Schools explored opportunities for research collaboration at the intersection of the digital sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
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“Moderate population growth best for maintaining broad prosperity"
01st February 2024The Government Committee on Demographic Developments 2050 has issued a recommendation to the government and the House of Representatives on demographic developments, in particular aging and migration, until at least 2050, held against the light of broad prosperity. Tilburg University's Academic Collaborative Centers contributed to this advice through working visits to Brainport Eindhoven and Parkstad Limburg.
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Video: Prosperity or Wellbeing – Dies Natalis 2023
28th November 2023The theme of Tilburg University's 96th Dies Natalis was 'Experiencing Broad Prosperity'. At the end of the ceremony, Prof dr. Antoinette de Bont and Prof. Dr. Lex Meijdam gave the presentation "Prosperity or wellbeing: why broader is better." Watch the video of their presentation.
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Labor market and talent development
A labor market that provides valuable work for all is essential for broad prosperity. But how do we organize that with a structural shortage in the aging labor market? How do we enable people as much as possible to use their talents?
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Research Lab Inclusive HRM
The department of Human Resource Studies, located in the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, takes a balanced approach in studying the exchange relationships between employer and employee at different levels of analysis and both from the perspective of the employer and the employee.
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People Management Center
The People Management Center (PMC) serves as a network platform in the HRM field to build bridges between business partners and the staff and students of the department of Human Resource Studies at Tilburg University and TIAS Business School.
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