In dit rapport onderzoeken we het gebruik van uitkeringen door eerste en tweede generatie immigranten in de periode 1999-2006. Het al dan niet ontvangen van een uitkering wordt, met gegevens van het CBS, gemeten in de periode 27 tot en met 31 december. In- en uitstroom worden gemeten als...

h3. Leeswijzer Dit onderzoek rapporteert over het aanleggen van een gegevensbestand over immigranten, de resultaten van eerste analyses met dit bestand en hetgeen dit alles in algemene zin impliceert of kan impliceren voor het beleid. Het aanleggen van het databestand door koppeling van de...

This article concerns the employment performance of recent immigrants in the Netherlands. The analysis shows different patterns of adjustment in the Dutch labour market for Western and non-Western immigrants. The entry of Western immigrants into the labour market follows a smooth pattern, while...

While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...

The risk of investment in schooling has largely been ignored. We assess the variance in the rate of return by surveying the international empirical literature from this fresh perspective and by simulating risky earnings profiles in alternative options, choosing parameters on basis of the very...

We ask individuals for their reservation price of a specified lottery and deduce their Arrow-Pratt measure of risk aversion. This allows direct testing of common hy-poth-eses on risk atti-tudes in three datasets. We find that risk aversion indeed falls with income and wealth. Entre-preneurs are...

We use a unique data set about the future wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex-ante, suggesting that students use very little private information about their wage prospects. Expectations appear much more anchored to perceptions of actual contemporaneous market data....