Ben Kriechel is researcher at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour
Market (ROA), Maastricht University. He has been project leader for several labour market
research projects both nationally and internationally. Ben Kriechel is involved in the
national skills-forecasts for the Netherlands, and participates in a European Network for
skills forecasting. He has taught courses on Personnel Economics, Health Economics and
Research Methodology. Ben Kriechel graduated ('cum laude') from Maastricht
University, where he also obtained his PhD. His Ph.D. research focused on large scale
displacement of workers combining firm-level and survey data. He has been visiting
Brandeis University, the NORC at the University of Chicago, and the IZA in Bonn. Ben
Kriechel has worked on topics in personnel economics, worker displacement, labour
mobility and manpower forecasting.
Articles
The Environmental Porter Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and a Model of Timing of Adoption (with Thomas Ziesemer), Economics of Innovation and New Technology (2009)
The Porter Hypothesis postulates that the costs of compliance with environmental standards may be offset...
Learning to update your reservation wage while looking for a new job (with Gerard Antonius Pfann), Portuguese Economic Journal (2006)
We combine post-displacement survey data with information from personnel files of a displacing firm in...
The role of specific and general human capital after displacement (with Gerard Antonius Pfann), Education Economics (2005)
Displaced workers experience significant and long-lasting wage losses. However, the average wage losses hide the...
Monkey bars and ladders: The importance of lateral and vertical job mobility in internal labor market careers (with Thomas Johannes Dohmen and Gerard Antonius Pfann), Journal of Population Economics (2004)
This paper compares results from the empirical literature on internal labor markets with outcomes from...
Books
Contributions to Books
Wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003 (with Lex Borghans), The Structure of Wages - An International Comparison (2009)
In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in...
Vocational Education and Training: Displaced workers, unemployed and VET, International Encyclopedia of Education (2009)
Regional Labour Market Forecasts in the Netherlands (with Frank Cörvers and Hans Heike), Regional Forecasting on Labour Markets (2008)
Forecasting in regional labour market monitoring, Monitoring of Regional Labour Markets in European States. Concepts, Experiences and Perspectives (2007)
Unpublished Papers
Taxation and Technology Adoption: A Hotelling Approach (with Thomas Ziesemer), UNU-MERIT WP2006-009 (2006)
Environmental regulation and competitiveness are issues that seem to be at odds. However, the `Porter...