Prof. Dr. Justus Veenman

Dr. Justus Veenman

M.A. (Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Ph.D. (Social Sciences, Utrecht University)

Professor of Economic Sociology,
Erasmus School of Economics, Faculty of Applied Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Professor Veenman is an economist who combines economic and sociological theory in research on social inequality. His main research interest is in inequality in relation to education and the labor market. Although he also studied the position of women, most of his publications are on the position of immigrants.

Prof. Veenman was Director of the Institute for Sociological and Economic Research (ISEO) of the Erasmus University from 1986 till 2005. The Institute focused on the social integration of immigrants in the Netherlands. He is Member of the IMISCOE Network and of the Erasmus Center on Migration, Ethnicity and Health (ECMEH). He is the Director of the Department of Applied Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE).

He was awarded the Wolter-Kluwer Research Prize in 1991 and the Erasmus Research Prize in 1993.

Projects

  • Interethnic marriages and socioeconomic integration ID 95
  • Exclusion risks on contemporary flexible labor markets ID 94
  • The socioeconomic effects of segregation
  • All Publications

    Key Publications

    Hagendoorn, L., Veenman, J. & Vollebergh, W. (eds.) (2003) Integrating immigrants in the Netherlands: Cultural versus socio-economic integration. Aldershot, Ashgate.

    Veenman, J. (2009) Measuring labor market Discrimination, An overview of methods and their characteristics (forthcoming). American Behavioral Scientist, -, pp. -.

    Bevelander, P. & Veenman, J. (2006) Naturalization and employment integration of Turkish and Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 7 (3), pp. 280-306.

    Veenman, J. & Ours van, J. (2004) From parent to child; early labor market experiences of second-generation immigrants in The Netherlands. De Economist, 152 (4), pp. 473-490.

    Veenman, J. & Ours van, J. (2003) The educational attainment of second-generation immigrants in The Netherlands. Journal of Population Economics, 16 (4), pp. 739-754.

    Recent Publications

    ERCOMER

    ERCOMER actively encourages, supports and promotes comparative research in the fields of international migration and ethnic relations within a European context.