Trudie Schils

Dr. Trudie Schils is assistant professor at the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics.

She teaches courses in the field of Social Economics, e.g. Economic analysis of social behaviour, European labour markets and welfare states, Human capital measurement, Understanding society. She supervises master theses in this field and actively coordinates the master track Social Economics, which is one of the master tracks within International Economic Studies (IES).

Her research concerns the relation between labour market institutions and labour market outcomes, both on a macro level and a micro level. More specific topics she is working on include: the relation between collective bargaining and labour market outcomes, the interrelation between certain labour market institutions (unemployment benefits, employment protection and active labour market policy), and the relation between education or training and labour market outcomes.

Additionally, she is involved in Sjoans, a research centre for Education Research. Research in this context concerns the analysis of the performance of 15-year old children in Limburg. Research questions in this project are the following: Do these children perform differently in comparison to other Dutch, Belgian or German children? Can they perform better? Does it matter from which background they come? Does it matter where they live? Does it matter what language they speak? Can we predict, and prevent, school dropout?

Maastricht University

School of Business and Economics

Department of Economics

Tongersestraat 53

Room A0.15

6211 LM Maastricht

The Netherlands

PO Box 616

6200 MD Maastricht

The Netherlands

Contact

TEL: +31 (0)43 388 3736