Jelle Visser

Jelle Visser (1946) is professor of empirical sociology and holds the chair of sociology of labour and organization at the University of Amsterdam, where he directs the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), an interdisciplinary centre for research and graduate teaching at the University of Amsterdam, with participation from economics, sociology, psychology, law and occupational health. He has held research and teaching positions at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (1981-84), the University of Mannheim, Germany (1986-87), the University of Madison-Wisconsin, USA (1990), Stanford University, USA (1991) and Nuffield College, Oxford, UK (1995). He is since 1996 associated with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany and an elected member of the Society for Comparative Research at Yale University. He worked as consultant to the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris, the European Commission, the International Labour Organization in Geneva, and the Irish National Economic and Social Council. He was member of the High-Level Group on Industrial Relations and Change, advising the European Commission on implementing the Lisbon strategy, and has been appointed Chief Editor for the 2004 Industrial Relations in Europe report of the European Commission. He was one of the founding members of the European Sociological Review and is currently on the editorial board of the European Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrielle Beziehungen, Economic and Industrial Democracy and Comparative Labour Law & Policy Journal.

Jelle Visser is the (co-)author of several books and some 100 refereed articles on industrial relations, trade unions, organizational behaviour, labour markets, social policy and welfare states.  His recent books include: The Future of Collective Bargaining, with a team of economists led by Lars Calmfors and Tito Boeri (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945 (with Bernhard Ebbinghaus) in the ‘Societies of Europe’ series of Palgrave-Macmillan, London (2000); A Dutch Miracle’. Job Growth, Welfare Reform and Corporatism in the Netherlands (Amsterdam University Press, 1997, with Anton Hemerijck), Industrial Relations in Europe. Traditions and Transitions (Sage, Londen, 1996, with Joris van Ruysseveldt), and In Search of Inclusive Unionism (Kluwer, Deventer and Boston, 1990).