Highly skilled and highly educated immigrants arriving in the Netherlands result in more employment opportunities for current residents, not fewer, EenVandaag reported after speaking with experts. Knowledge migrants are essential for the Dutch economy, added Jeroen Dijsselbloem. The former finance minister and current mayor of Eindhoven told Buitenhof about his recent conversations with tech company ASML.
University of Amsterdam
The COVID-crisis has affected Amsterdam and the metropolitan area disproportionally: substantial unemployment, 5-10 months of backlog in children’s education, significant growth in households with debts, and an enormous backlog in health care. Urgent and explicit choices need to be made towards achieving a future proof metropole.
Several professors of the UvA and VU (Barbara Baarsma, Willemijn van Dolen, Henri de Groot, Mirjam van Praag en Marc Salomon) together with Boston Consulting Group have holistically analyzed the societal and economic impact of the COVID-crisis. Based on this, they present several vistas for how the metropole could develop and make suggestions for critical policy choices. In their advice, they build on existing impact analyses and future scenarios. This is a unique collaboration between professors from UvA and VU and BCG-written on their own initiative based on their commitment to city and region. The report was handed to mayor and