Economics

Specialisation: Education and Labour Economics

Potential jobs are policy officers in international organisations (e.g. OECD, EU), national Ministries of Education, Employment or Social Affairs, local government institutes, school boards or public councils (e.g. WRR, SER); researcher positions at (non-government) institutes (e.g. CPB, ZEW, BIBB, ESRI, IER, IAB, Inspectorate of Education, UWV), universities.

• policy makers
• researchers
• consultants

Specialisation: Global challenges and macroeconomic policy

The specialisation provides a background necessary for jobs in economic policy or insurance. Potential employers range from national governmental agencies (e.g. the CPB), Central Banks, international organisations (e.g. the OECD, the IMF) or financial and insurance firms (e.g. Rabobank).

• Junior macroeconomic policy researcher
• Policy coordinator
• EU civil service
• Accountancy firms
• Banks
• Economic advisory departments in private companies
• Research Institutes
• Non-governmental organisations
• PhD programmes

Specalisation: Market regulation and design

The specialisation provides a background necessary for jobs in economic consultancy. Potential employers range from specialized economic consultancy firms, to economic advisory departments in large audit firms, to governmental and non-governmental market regulation authorities.

• Economics consultant
• Advisor on risk consulting
• Manager