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Unequal chances on a flexible labor market : the case of the Netherlands

Bijwaard, Govert; Veenman, Justus - 2008

Labor markets in Western countries are becoming more and more flexible, thereby meeting the needs of employers. Yet the new flexibility also offers opportunities to workers, while at the same time bears the risk of long-term exclusion. This paper deals with unequal chances on the contemporary...

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Strikes in France and the Netherlands : a comparison of labour market institutions

Butter, Frank A. G. den; Koppes, Silvie Y. - 2003

Strikes as a consequence of labour conflicts occur about 28 times as much in France as in the Netherlands. This paper examines the institutional differences underlying these differences in strike activity. Our empirical analysis shows that strike activity is high in France if workers were...

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Unequal chances on a flexible labor market, the case of the Netherlands

Bijwaard, Govert; Veenman, Justus - 2008

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Empirical evaluation of broader job search requirements for unemployed workers

Klaauw, Bas van der; Vethaak, Heike - 2022

This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However,...

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Employment choices and pay differences between non-standard and standard work in Britain, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden

Gustafsson, Siv S.; Kenjoh, Eiko; Wetzels, Cécile M. M. P. - 2001

, GSOEP for Germany, OSA for the Netherlands and HUS for Sweden.The reason for analysing and comparing four countries is an … women in the other three countries. Similarly the probabilityof being self employed for men in Sweden is much higher than in … the other three countries. Furthermorewe find part-time workers relatively better paid in Sweden and the Netherlands than …

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Measuring the economic value of a marine protection program against the introduction of non-indigenous species in the Netherlands

Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2002

Harmful algal bIoom species are the cause of important damages to marine living resources and human beings. These marine species are primarily introduced in North-European waters through ballast water, i.e. water trans-ported across the oceans so as to keep a vessel in balance. Port authorities...

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What goes up sometimes stays up : shocks and institutions as determinants of unemployment persistence

Amisano, Gianni; Serati, Massimiliano - 2002

We analyse the determinants of unemployment persistence in four OECDcountries byestimating a structural Bayesian VAR with an informative priorbased on an insiders/outsiders model. We explicitly insert unemployment ben-efits and labour taxes so that our identification is not affected by the Faust...

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What goes up sometimes stays up : shocks and institutions as determinants of unemployment persistence

Amisano, Gianni; Serati, Massimiliano - 2002

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Employment choices and pay differences between non-standard and standard work in Britain, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden

Gustafsson, Siv S.; Kenjoh, Eiko; Wetzels, Cécile M. M. P. - 2001

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001611743

Employment assimilation of immigrants in the Netherlands : catching up and the irrelevance of education

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2008

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