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Advanced Academic
Update
Speakers
Less Dependency - More Participation?
Recent innovations in Sickness and
Disability Programmes
 Jan Willem van
Blitterswijk
Senior policy advisor at the Social Intelligence and Investigation Service (SIOD) of the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (anti-fraud policy and international affairs)Previous careers:Senior policy advisor at the National Institute for Social Affairs (contribution policy and anti fraud policy)Head ofcontribution collection of an Industrial Insurance Board
1990-1994 Head
of Contribution
Collection
Process at an
Industrial
Insurance Board
1994-1995 Senior
Policy Advisor
for the
Federation of
Industrial
Insurance Boards
1995-1999 Senior
Policy Advisor
at the National
Institute for
Industrial
Insurance
Schemes
1999-2002 Senior
Policy Advisor
at the Ministry
for Social
Affairs and
Employment
2002-2006
Teamleader
Policy Bureau
SIOD
2006-present
Senior Policy
Advisor SIOD
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Ad Bockting
Ad Bockting
studied Law at
the University
of Groningen (Netherlands)
and he graduated
in 1972. From
1974 he has been
working in the
field of social
security, mainly
in policy
departments
dealing with
disability and
rehabilitation,
and with
organizational
structures in
implementing
disability and
rehabilitation
programs. From
1993, Ad
Bockting has
been working as
manager of the
International
Department of
UWV, the
Institute for
Employee
Benefits Schemes.
An important
part of his work
is the
coordination of
social security
in the EU.
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Michael Förster
Administrator
(economist) in
the Social
Policy Division
of the
Organisation for
Economic
Co-operation and
Development,
Paris.
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 Prof. dr. Philip R.
de Jong
Prof. dr. Philip R.
de Jong is
partner/director at APE.
He has studied
econometrics at the
University of Amsterdam.
He obtained his doctoral
degree in 1990. Since
1992 he is professor in
Economics of the Social
Security. Until 1999 he
worked in the Erasmus
University Rotterdam and
from then for the
University of Amsterdam.
His (inter)national
publications in the
field of Social Security
in general and
Disability Insurances in
particular are
innumerable. As a
consultant he works for
different international
organizations, e.g. OESO
and the WorldBank, and
interior Public and
Private Institutions.
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 Allan
Little
Allan is an
economist with the
Department for Work and
Pensions in the UK. He
is an analyst in the
Skills Directorate, but
has recently been
seconded to a policy
development team to work
on Welfare and Skills
policy. In his previous
position he was involved
in the cost benefit
analysis of labour
market programmes for
Incapacity Benefit
claimants.
Before joining the DWP,
Allan was a researcher
and teaching assistant
at Lancaster University,
where he also completed
his PhD on Economic
Inactivity in Britain.
His papers include:
‘Inactivity and Labour
Market Attachment in
Britain’ (Scottish
Journal of Political
Economy, Vol. 54, 2007)
and ‘The spatial pattern
of economic activity and
inactivity in Britain:
People or place effects?’
(forthcoming in Regional
Studies).
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 Agnes Meershoek
Agnes Meershoek
studied Health Care
Sciences and
obtained her
doctoral degree in
1999 on a study into
the daily practices
of physicians’
illness
certification for
the Dutch Sickness
Benefit Act. Her
current research
focuses on the
tension between
policy intentions
and policy outcomes
in the domain of
work incapacity
arrangements, with
special attention to
normative
consequences of
these policies.
Agnes is appointed
as assistant
professor at the
department of
Health, Ethics and
Society, Faculty of
Health, medicine and
Life Sciences,
Maastricht
University. She
teaches in the
major- and master
programs ‘Work and
Health’, part of the
Master of Public
Health and is
semester coordinator
in the bachelor
European Public
Health. Furthermore
she participates in
teaching program on
health ethics and
health law for
medical students.
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 Dr.
jur. Friedrich Mehrhoff
Since 15 years Dr. jur.
Friedrich Mehrhoff
represents all
rehabilitation affaires
in the German Federation
of Insurers Against Work
Accidents and
Occupational Diseases.
Insurers, service
providers and state
authorities ask for his
recommendations
nationally and
internationally. In the
last years he focuses on
the worldwide movement
called Disability
Management (www.disability-manager.de)
as an investment of
return for insurers. He
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 Prof. Joan
Muysken
Joan Muysken is Full
Professor of Economics
at the Faculty of
Economics and Business
Administration,
University Maastricht
since 1984. He had many
administrative positions
at the Faculty, amongst
which dean of the
Faculty of Economics and
Business Administration.
He studied quantitative
economics at the
University of Groningen
and obtained his PhD
degree from the
University of Groningen
on the aggregation of
production functions.
Joan was a visiting
researcher at the
University of Oslo, SUNY
Buffalo (USA), the
Catholic University of
Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
and the University of
Newcastle (Australia).
He is also Director of
CofFEE-Europe (see
http://www.fdewb.unimaas.nl/algec/coffee-europe/text.htm
). Joan published in
international journals
and books on various
aspects of labour
economics, unemployment
and wage formation and
theories of economic
growth.
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 Nigel
Meager
Nigel
Meager, BA (Oxon), M
Phil (Oxon), a labour
economist by training,
is a well-established
international expert on
labour market and
employment policy
issues. He has worked at
the Institute for
Employment Studies (where
he is Director) since
1984, following posts at
the Universities of Bath
and Glasgow. In 1990-91
he was a senior research
fellow at the Social
Science Research Centre
(WZB) in Berlin.
His personal research
interests cover the
functioning of national,
regional and local
labour markets,
unemployment, skill
shortages, labour market
flexibility, changing
patterns of work, the
evaluation of government
training and employment
programmes and active
labour market measures,
policies towards the
self-employed and small
businesses, equal
opportunity policies and
practices. A particular
research interest
relates to disadvantaged
groups in the labour
market, with a focus on
the participation of
disabled people in the
labour market, and he
has a long national and
international track
record of work on this
topic.
He has been a specialist
advisor to the Education
and Employment Select
Committee of the British
House of Commons (in
1996-7, and 1998-9), the
UK representative on the
European Commission’s
Expert Group on the
Employment of Disabled
People and a member of
the Employment and
Training Committee of
the Royal National
Institute for the Blind.
He has been (2004/05) a
specialist advisor to
the Trade and Industry
Select Committee of the
House of Commons, in
connection with their
enquiry into the impact
of employment regulation
on labour market
flexibility. He is chair
of the Advisory Group on
the Impact of Employment
Regulation of the UK
Department of Business,
Enterprise and
Regulatory Reform, and a
member of the expert
advisory panel of the UK
Sector Skills
Development Agency. He
is Chair of the
Executive Committee of
the UK Association of
Research Centres in the
Social Sciences (ARCISS).
He has been (1996-99 and
2003-04) the UK expert
on the European
Commission’s ‘Employment
Observatory’, and he is
currently part of the
co-ordinating team (in
partnership with ÖSB
Consulting in Vienna) of
the Mutual Learning
Programme of the
European Employment
Strategy (previously the
Peer Review Programme),
and of the Peer Review
and Assessment in Social
Inclusion, also on
behalf of the European
Commission.
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 Dr. Rienk Prins
Dr. Rienk Prins (1949) studied sociology at the Free University Amsterdam and made his Ph.D. on an investigation into backgrounds of differen-ces in sickness absence levels in Belgian, German and Dutch firms. Since 1992 he is research director/senior consultant at the AStri Research and Consultancy Group in Leiden, the Netherlands.
Mr. Prins coordinated various comparative studies in the field of social security and labour reintegration. He was scientific coordinator to the ISSA project ‘Work Incapacity and Reintegration’, a prospective comparative study on the impact of medical and non-medical interventions on work resumption (Frank S. Bloch & Rienk Prins (Eds.): Who returns to work and why? A Six- Country study on Work Incapacity and Reintegration, International Social Security Series, Volume 5, Transaction publishers, New Brunswick/London, 2001). Recent international studies were/are devoted to subjects like: disability benefit dependency due to mental health problems, disability assessment and work resumption policies in migrants and ethnic minorities, quality policies in medical assessment, as innovative job search interventions for persons with disabilities.
His international consultancy activities started in1996 and presently focus on expertise building regarding reforms in sickness and disability benefit programme operation, sickness absence and disability management, as well as quality policy (in occupational health care).
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 Daniël
van Vuuren
Daniel van Vuuren
(1974) studied
Econometrics at the
Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, and
received his PhD in
Economics from this
same university.
Since 2002, he has
been employed by the
CPB Netherlands
Bureau for Economic
Policy Analysis,
currently as a
Senior Research
Associate. He
conducts empirical
research in the
fields of early
retirement, social
security, and labour
supply in general.
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