Frank Tros

Biographic Data

ID3472961
NAMEFrank Tros
GIVEN NAMESFrank
FAMILY NAMETros
SIGNATURETROS F
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0001-8776-8263
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS92
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • More status quo than change. Employer associations’ preferences in Dutch and Danish welfare

    Open AccessMikkel Mailand, Frank TrosARTICLEJournal of Industrial Relations2026

    Danish and Dutch employers’ associations (EAs) support the status quo on welfare policies. These status quo positions are related to welfare effort (spending) as well as to welfare orientation and welfare boundaries (the mix between universal, occupational and market provided welfare). In relation to welfare boundaries, policy control is a key EA preference. This preference should be seen in the context of the important roles EAs in both countrie…

  • Public procurement and job quality in the Netherlands

    Open AccessFrank Tros, Maarten Keune et al.ARTICLETransfer European Review of…2025

    Dutch public procurement practices have led to problems with high workloads, low wages, low job autonomy and job insecurity. With reference to four sectors – construction, home care, cleaning and regional bus transport – we discuss two main explanatory dimensions: (i) the financial and institutional context; and (ii) the ideas shaping the normative and cognitive frames of actors that influence their policy-making. Procurers (a) prioritise the che…

  • Aanbesteden en kwaliteit van werk in Nederland

    Simon Kuijpers, Maarten Keune et al.ARTICLEMens & Maatschappij2024

    Public procurement and the quality of labour in the Netherlands In labour-intensive sectors, public procurement’s focus on price competition and efficiency jeopardises job quality. This study shows procurement’s negative impacts in all job quality dimensions in four sectors in the Netherlands. Employing an actor-institutionalist lens, the research investigates these problems by analysing several actor positions, interactions, and orientations. Th…

  • Towards ‘Flexicurity’? Balancing Flexibility and Security in EU Member States

    Open AccessT Wilthagen, Frank Tros et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social Security2004Cited by: 1

    This paper focuses on the ‘flexibility-security nexus' in employment and the labour market in four EU-member states: Belgium, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. The starting point of the paper is the concept of ‘flexicurity’, viewed as a particular way of dealing with this nexus. The paper explores differences in the emphasis put on types and levels of flexibility and security, as well as the particular trade-offs between forms of flexibility …

  • The concept of 'flexicurity

    Open AccessT Wilthagen, Frank TrosARTICLETransfer European Review of…2004Cited by: 91

    This article deals with the new policy concept of 'flexicurity' in view of the emerging flexibility-security nexus currently faced by the European Union, national governments, sectors of industry, individual companies and workers. On the one hand there is a strong demand to make labour markets, employment and work organisation more flexible. At same time, an equally strong demand exists for providing security to employees - especially vulnerable …

  • Towards 'Flexicurity'? Balancing Flexibility and Security in EU Member States

    Open AccessT Wilthagen, Frank Tros et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2003