Ben Kriechel is researcher at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA). He has been project leader for several labour market research projects both nationally and internationally. Ben Kriechel is involved in the national skills-forecasts for the Netherlands, and is part of the core team developing the pan-European skill forecast on behalf of Cedefop. He has taught courses on Personnel Economics, Health Economics and Research Methodology.
Ben Kriechel graduated from Maastricht University, where he also obtained his PhD. His PhD research focused on large scale displacement of workers combining firm-level and survey data. He has been visiting Brandeis University, the NORC at the University of Chicago, and the IZA in Bonn. Ben Kriechel has worked on topics in personnel economics, worker displacement, labour mobility and manpower forecasting.