Value of Work

• Conen, W.S., & De Beer, P.T. (2020). De waarde van werk in Nederland: resultaten van de Waarde van Werk Monitor. Amsterdam: AIAS-HSI
• Intermediate results of the 'Value of Work Monitor' are published in the series 'Kort & Bondig' (in Dutch): 
  • Heeft de coronacrisis de kwetsbaren het zwaarst getroffen?
  • De impact van Covid-19 op de waarde en waardering van werk en het steunbeleid van de overheid
  • Waarden in de 21e eeuw: nieuwe tijden?
  • Een leven lang ontwikkelen in Nederland: hoe gaan werkgevers hiermee om?
  • Hoe waarderen we regels rond werk en inkomen?
  • Welke prijs voor zekerheid?
  • De waarde van werk staat in Nederland onder druk
• W.S. Conen & P. T. de Beer (2020). Waarde van werk in Nederland: de rol van de organisatie. Beleid en Maatschappij, 47(2), 191-198.
• W.S. Conen (2020). Waarde van werk in Nederland. Den Haag: Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (WRR). 
• W.S. Conen (2019). The value of work in a changing labour market: an analysis of workers’ surveys 1997-2015, AIAS-HSI Working Paper 4
• W.S. Conen & P. T. de Beer (2018). The value of work in a changing labour market: a review and research agenda, AIAS-HSI Working Paper 1

Long-term labour market developments

• P. T. de Beer & W.S. Conen (2018). Een halve eeuw arbeidsmarkt: De ontwikkeling van de Nederlandse arbeidsmarkt sinds 1969 onder invloed van technologie, economie en beleid, AIAS-HSI Working Paper 3.

Self-employed without personnel

• Conen, W.S., & Schippers, J.J. (Eds.) (2019). Self-Employment as Precarious Work: a European perspective. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Conen, W.S., & Schippers, J.J. (2019). Chapter 1: Self-employment: between freedom and insecurity. In: Conen, W.S. & Schippers, JJ. (Eds.) (2019).Self-Employment as Precarious Work: a European perspective. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Conen, W.S. & Debets, M. (2019). Chapter 7: Precariousness and social risks among solo self-employed in Germany and the Netherlands. In: Conen, W.S. & Schippers, JJ. (Eds.) (2019).Self-Employment as Precarious Work: a European perspective. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Conen, W., & Schulze Buschoff, K. (2019). Precariousness among solo self-employed workers: a German-Dutch comparison. Journal of poverty and social justice, 27(2), 177-197. https://doi.org/10.1332/175982719X15478021367809
• Conen, W. (2018). Do we have to worry about the ‘new’ solo self-employed? Selfsufficiency and precariousness among workers with different types of contract : Host Country Discussion Paper – The Netherlands. Paper presented at Peer Review on “The rise of precarious work (including some forms of solo selfemployment) – causes, challenges and policy option”, The Hague, Netherlands
• Hershey, D. A., van Dalen, H. P., Conen, W., & Henkens, K. (2017). Are “Voluntary” Self-Employed Better Prepared for Retirement Than “Forced” Self-Employed? Work, Aging and Retirement, 3(3), 243-256. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2827522
• Conen, W.S., Schippers, J.J. and Schulze Buschoff, K. (2016). Self-Employed without Personnel – Between Freedom and Insecurity. WSI Study 5, Düsseldorf: Hans Böckler Foundation.

Multiple jobholding in Europe: Structure and Dynamics

• Special issue 2 (2021) in Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research:
  • Conen, W.S. & Schulze Buschoff, K. (2021): Introduction to the special issue: multiple jobholding in Europe,  pp. 141–147
  • Conen, W.S. & De Beer, P.T. (2021): When two (or more) do not equal one: an analysis of the changing nature of multiple and single jobholding in Europe, pp. 165–180
  • Conen, W.S. & Stein, J. (2021): A panel study of the consequences of multiple jobholding: enrichment and depletion effects, pp. 219–236
• W.S. Conen (2020). Multiple jobholding in Europe. Structure and dynamics. WSI Study 20, Düsseldorf: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung.

I was trained as a labour economist at Utrecht University and completed my PhD at the same institution in 2013 with the thesis ‘Older Workers: the View of Dutch employers in a European perspective’. Subsequently, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the project 'Self-employed without personnel: between freedom and insecurity’.

I joined the University of Amsterdam in 2017 as a postdoctoral researcher at research centre AIAS-HSI. Since then, I have been co-responsible for the 'Value of Work' research project. I am also active in other research projects, including 'Hidden poverty' and 'Self-employed in times of crisis'. Since 2021 I am a Marie Jahoda Visiting Fellow of the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit).

My research interests are in the area of changing labour markets, quality of work, work values, technological developments, digitalization, multiple jobholding, self-employment, non-standard work arrangements, social security, personnel strategies and employers’ behaviour. I was trained as a labour economist and still see that as my 'core perspective', but I have always been very interested in other disciplinary perspectives on 'work and organisation'.

I have a strong preference for working in multidisciplinary environments, understand various disciplinary ‘languages’ and am experienced in both quantitative and qualitative research methods.