Tanja van der Lippe is professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology of Utrecht University, head of the Department of Sociology, and chair of the Research School ICS. Her research interests are in the area of work-family linkages in Dutch and other societies, for which she received a number of large scale grants from Dutch and European Science Foundations. She received an ERC Advanced Grant for her research into ‘Investments in a sustainable workforce in Europe’. She is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014), the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (2013), and the European Academy of Sociology (2010). Her edited books include Quality of life and work in Europe: Theory, practice and policy (Palgrave, 2011), Competing claims in work and family life (Edward Elgar, 2007), and Women’s employment in a comparative perspective (Aldine de Gruyter, 2001).Zoltán Lippényi is assistant professor in Organizational and Economic Sociology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is a member of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) and the ISA RC28 Social stratification and Mobility. He obtained his PhD (2014) in sociology at Utrecht University. Between 2014 and 2018, he worked as post-doctoral researcher within the ERC-financed Sustainable Workforce project, focusing on the consequences of organizational employment practices, and in particular adoption of flexible work and employment arrangements, for workplace inequality and employee outcomes. Since 2015, he represents the Netherlands in the Comparative Organizations and Inequality Network (COIN), a research collaboration studying workplace wage inequality from an international perspective. In this collaboration, he studies the effects of organizational context and change on inequality in wages, using register-based linked-employer employee datasets. His work is published in the European Sociological Review, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, History of the Family, and Social Science Research.

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• List of FiguresList of TablesContributorsPrefacePart 1. Organizations and their employees in a sustainable workforce A sustainable workforce in Europe: Bringing the organization back inTanja van der Lippe The institutional context of a sustainable workforceKatia Begall and Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes Collecting cross-country comparative multilevel data in organizations: The research design of the European Sustainable Workforce SurveyZoltán Lippényi, Thomas Martens and Tanja van der LippePart 2. A comparative approach to which organizations invest in employees: differences between sectors and countries The differential influence of employee and organization characteristics on men and women’s training participationNikki van Gerwen, Vincent Buskens and Maria das Dores Guerreiro Investments in working parents: The use of parental leaveLeonie van Breeschoten, Katia Begall, Anne-Rigt Poortman and Laura den Dulk Which older workers participate in which personnel policies?Jelle Lössbroek, Joop Schippers, Bram Lancee and Stefan Szücs Worksite Health Promotion in European organizations: Availability according to employers and employeesAnne van der Put and Jornt Mandemakers Immigrants’ access to employer-provided professional training within firms: An analysis for the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden and the NetherlandsSilvia Maja MelzerPart 3. Returns of investments in a Sustainable Workforce for employers and employees HR investments in an employable workforce: Mutual gains or conflicting outcomes? Jasmijn van Harten, Zoltán Lippényi and Paul Boselie Temporary contracts, job uncertainty, and work-life balance: a multilevel study across European OrganizationsZoltán Lippényi, Alessandra Gasparotto and Youko Nätti Human capital investments and the value of work: Comparing employees and solo self-employed workersWieteke Conen and Paul de Beer Do female managers improve women’s promotional opportunities?Margriet van Hek and Anja Abendroth Technology implementation within enterprises and changes in the educational and age composition of enterprise workforcesJannes ten Berge and Maarten Goos A sustainable workforce in Europe: Future challengesTanja van der Lippe and Éva FodorBibliographyIndex

Tanja van der Lippe is professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology of Utrecht University, head of the Department of Sociology, and chair of the Research School ICS. Her research interests are in the area of work-family linkages in Dutch and other societies, for which she received a number of large scale grants from Dutch and European Science Foundations. She received an ERC Advanced Grant for her research into ‘Investments in a sustainable workforce in Europe’. She is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014), the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (2013), and the European Academy of Sociology (2010). Her edited books include Quality of life and work in Europe: Theory, practice and policy (Palgrave, 2011), Competing claims in work and family life (Edward Elgar, 2007), and Women’s employment in a comparative perspective (Aldine de Gruyter, 2001).Zoltán Lippényi is assistant professor in Organizational and Economic Sociology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is a member of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) and the ISA RC28 Social stratification and Mobility. He obtained his PhD (2014) in sociology at Utrecht University. Between 2014 and 2018, he worked as post-doctoral researcher within the ERC-financed Sustainable Workforce project, focusing on the consequences of organizational employment practices, and in particular adoption of flexible work and employment arrangements, for workplace inequality and employee outcomes. Since 2015, he represents the Netherlands in the Comparative Organizations and Inequality Network (COIN), a research collaboration studying workplace wage inequality from an international perspective. In this collaboration, he studies the effects of organizational context and change on inequality in wages, using register-based linked-employer employee datasets. His work is published in the European Sociological Review, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, History of the Family, and Social Science Research.

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• List of FiguresList of TablesContributorsPrefacePart 1. Organizations and their employees in a sustainable workforce A sustainable workforce in Europe: Bringing the organization back inTanja van der Lippe The institutional context of a sustainable workforceKatia Begall and Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes Collecting cross-country comparative multilevel data in organizations: The research design of the European Sustainable Workforce SurveyZoltán Lippényi, Thomas Martens and Tanja van der LippePart 2. A comparative approach to which organizations invest in employees: differences between sectors and countries The differential influence of employee and organization characteristics on men and women’s training participationNikki van Gerwen, Vincent Buskens and Maria das Dores Guerreiro Investments in working parents: The use of parental leaveLeonie van Breeschoten, Katia Begall, Anne-Rigt Poortman and Laura den Dulk Which older workers participate in which personnel policies?Jelle Lössbroek, Joop Schippers, Bram Lancee and Stefan Szücs Worksite Health Promotion in European organizations: Availability according to employers and employeesAnne van der Put and Jornt Mandemakers Immigrants’ access to employer-provided professional training within firms: An analysis for the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden and the NetherlandsSilvia Maja MelzerPart 3. Returns of investments in a Sustainable Workforce for employers and employees HR investments in an employable workforce: Mutual gains or conflicting outcomes? Jasmijn van Harten, Zoltán Lippényi and Paul Boselie Temporary contracts, job uncertainty, and work-life balance: a multilevel study across European OrganizationsZoltán Lippényi, Alessandra Gasparotto and Youko Nätti Human capital investments and the value of work: Comparing employees and solo self-employed workersWieteke Conen and Paul de Beer Do female managers improve women’s promotional opportunities?Margriet van Hek and Anja Abendroth Technology implementation within enterprises and changes in the educational and age composition of enterprise workforcesJannes ten Berge and Maarten Goos A sustainable workforce in Europe: Future challengesTanja van der Lippe and Éva FodorBibliographyIndex

Tanja van der Lippe is professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology of Utrecht University, head of the Department of Sociology, and chair of the Research School ICS. Her research interests are in the area of work-family linkages in Dutch and other societies, for which she received a number of large scale grants from Dutch and European Science Foundations. She received an ERC Advanced Grant for her research into ‘Investments in a sustainable workforce in Europe’. She is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014), the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (2013), and the European Academy of Sociology (2010). Her edited books include Quality of life and work in Europe: Theory, practice and policy (Palgrave, 2011), Competing claims in work and family life (Edward Elgar, 2007), and Women’s employment in a comparative perspective (Aldine de Gruyter, 2001).Zoltán Lippényi is assistant professor in Organizational and Economic Sociology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is a member of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) and the ISA RC28 Social stratification and Mobility. He obtained his PhD (2014) in sociology at Utrecht University. Between 2014 and 2018, he worked as post-doctoral researcher within the ERC-financed Sustainable Workforce project, focusing on the consequences of organizational employment practices, and in particular adoption of flexible work and employment arrangements, for workplace inequality and employee outcomes. Since 2015, he represents the Netherlands in the Comparative Organizations and Inequality Network (COIN), a research collaboration studying workplace wage inequality from an international perspective. In this collaboration, he studies the effects of organizational context and change on inequality in wages, using register-based linked-employer employee datasets. His work is published in the European Sociological Review, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, History of the Family, and Social Science Research.

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• List of FiguresList of TablesContributorsPrefacePart 1. Organizations and their employees in a sustainable workforce A sustainable workforce in Europe: Bringing the organization back inTanja van der Lippe The institutional context of a sustainable workforceKatia Begall and Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes Collecting cross-country comparative multilevel data in organizations: The research design of the European Sustainable Workforce SurveyZoltán Lippényi, Thomas Martens and Tanja van der LippePart 2. A comparative approach to which organizations invest in employees: differences between sectors and countries The differential influence of employee and organization characteristics on men and women’s training participationNikki van Gerwen, Vincent Buskens and Maria das Dores Guerreiro Investments in working parents: The use of parental leaveLeonie van Breeschoten, Katia Begall, Anne-Rigt Poortman and Laura den Dulk Which older workers participate in which personnel policies?Jelle Lössbroek, Joop Schippers, Bram Lancee and Stefan Szücs Worksite Health Promotion in European organizations: Availability according to employers and employeesAnne van der Put and Jornt Mandemakers Immigrants’ access to employer-provided professional training within firms: An analysis for the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden and the NetherlandsSilvia Maja MelzerPart 3. Returns of investments in a Sustainable Workforce for employers and employees HR investments in an employable workforce: Mutual gains or conflicting outcomes? Jasmijn van Harten, Zoltán Lippényi and Paul Boselie Temporary contracts, job uncertainty, and work-life balance: a multilevel study across European OrganizationsZoltán Lippényi, Alessandra Gasparotto and Youko Nätti Human capital investments and the value of work: Comparing employees and solo self-employed workersWieteke Conen and Paul de Beer Do female managers improve women’s promotional opportunities?Margriet van Hek and Anja Abendroth Technology implementation within enterprises and changes in the educational and age composition of enterprise workforcesJannes ten Berge and Maarten Goos A sustainable workforce in Europe: Future challengesTanja van der Lippe and Éva FodorBibliographyIndex