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Training Access, Reciprocity, and Expected Retirement Age

Montizaan, Raymond Michel - 2015

This paper investigates whether employers can induce employees to postpone retirement by offering access to training courses that maintain job proficiency. We use unique, matched employer–employee surveys for the Dutch public sector, which include detailed information on a wide range of HR...

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Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-Year-Olds

Leuven, Edwin - 2006

This study presents quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of expanding early schooling enrollment possibilities on early achievement. It exploits two features of the school system in Holland. The first is rolling admissions; children are allowed start school immediately after their 4th...

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Job-Worker Mismatch and Cognitive Decline

de Grip, Andries - 2007

We have used longitudinal test data on various aspects of people's cognitive abilities to analyze whether overeducated workers are more vulnerable to a decline in their cognitive abilities, and undereducated workers are less vulnerable. We found that a job-worker mismatch induces a cognitive...

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The Role of Peers in Estimating Tenure-Performance Profiles : Evidence from Personnel Data

de Grip, Andries - 2011

In this paper, we estimate tenure-performance profiles using unique panel data that contain detailed information on individual workers' performance. We find that a 10 percent increase in tenure leads to an increase in performance of 5.5 percent of a standard deviation. This translates to an...

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The Effects of Pension Rights and Retirement Age on Training Participation : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Montizaan, Raymond Michel - 2009

This paper uses a natural experiment approach to identify the effects of an exogenous change in future pension benefits on workers' training participation. We use unique matched survey and administrative data for male employees in the Dutch public sector who were born in 1949 or 1950. Only the...

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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions : An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program

Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam; IJsselstein, Auke - 2021

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one location...

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'Employability-Miles' and Worker Employability Awareness

Gerards, Ruud - 2012

This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training ("Employability-miles") voucher scheme that aims to stimulate employees to develop a more active attitude toward their own employability. Using data from two surveys of the firm's workforce, we find that voucher use is related...

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Why Do Low-Educated Workers Invest Less in Further Training?

Fouarge, Didier - 2010

Several studies document the fact that low-educated workers participate less often in further training than high-educated workers. The economic literature suggests that there is no significant difference in employer willingness to train low-educated workers, which leaves the question of why the...

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Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?

Nelen, Annemarie - 2011

This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a unique dataset on the Dutch pharmacy sector that includes the work hours of all employees and a hard physical measure of firm productivity, we estimate a production function...

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Acquisitions, Entry, and Innovation in Network Industries

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim Ingemar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

option of selling to an incumbent increases innovation incentives for entrepreneurs when network effects are strong and … necessarily restrict innovation incentives. We also show that network effects promote acquisitions over entry and that the … entrepreneur has strong incentives to invest in the initial user base of the innovation. …

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