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The Short-Term Effect of the COVID-19 Crisis on Employment Probabilities of Labour-Market Entrants in the Netherlands

Bussink, Henri; Vervliet, Tobias; ter Weel, Bas - 2022

This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the Netherlands. Two recent cohorts of graduates are studied and compared to two pre-COVID-19 cohorts: the 2019 cohort was unexpectedly hit by the COVID-19 crisis about six months after...

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Does the Teacher Beat the Test? The Additional Value of Teacher Assessment in Predicting Student Ability

Feron, Eva - 2015

This research investigates to what extent subjective teacher assessment of children's ability adds to the use of test scores in the explanation of children's outcomes in the transition from elementary to secondary school in terms of initial track allocation, track switching in the first three...

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Measuring and Interpreting Trends in the Division of Labour in the Netherlands

Akcomak, Semih - 2011

This paper introduces indicators about the division of labour to measure and interpret recent trends in the structure of employment in the Netherlands. Changes in the division of labour occur at three different levels: the level of the individual worker, the level of the industry and the spatial...

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Labour-Market Outcomes of Older Workers in the Netherlands : Measuring Job Prospects Using the Occupational Age Structure

Bosch, Nicole - 2013

This paper analyses changes in job opportunities of older workers in the Netherlands in the period 1996-2010. The standard human capital model predicts that, as a result of human capital obsolescence, mobility becomes more costly when workers become older. We measure and interpret how changing...

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Costs and Benefits of an Individual Learning Account (Ila) : A Simulation Analysis for the Netherlands

Bussink, Henri; ter Weel, Bas - 2022

This study analyses costs and benefits of a public-private funded individual learning account (ILA) for the labour force in the Netherlands. We consider an ILA that is funded by subsidies targeted at low- and medium-educated workers and co-funded by training levies as a share of the wage bill....

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Does Manager Turnover Improve Firm Performance? New Evidence Using Information from Dutch Soccer, 1986-2004

ter Weel, Bas - 2021

This research examines the impact of manager turnover on firm performance using information from the Dutch soccer league in the period 1986-2004. The advantage of using sports data is that both manager characteristics and decisions and firm outcomes are directly observable. Both...

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Towards a holistic user innovation policy

Bengtsson, Lars; Edquist, Charles - 2020

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Measuring Cultural Diversity and its Impact on Innovation : Longitudinal Evidence from Dutch Firms

Ozgen, Ceren - 2013

To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer‐employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …

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The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Innovation : Evidence from Dutch Firm-Level Data

Ozgen, Ceren - 2014

migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

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From the systems of innovation approach to a general theory of innovation : do activities and functions reflect what happens in innovation systems?

Edquist, Charles; Laatsit, Mart - 2022

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