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Using the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1991-2001, the authors investigate the incidence of part-time employment in the country with the highest part-time employment rate of the OECD countries. Women fulfil most part-time jobs, but nevertheless a considerable fraction of men works part-time as well....
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This paper tests the predictive value of subjective labour supply data for adjustments in working hours over time. The idea is that if subjective labour supply data help to predict next year’s working hours, such data must contain at least some information on individual labour supply...
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Early retirement schemes and disability insurance in the Netherlands have both been reformed during the past decades. The reforms have increased incentives to continue working and have decreased the substitution between early retirement and disability. This study investigates the impact of the...
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In the empirical literature on labour supply, several static models are developed to incorporate constraints on working hours. These models do not address to what extent working hours are constrained within jobs, and to what extent working hours can be adjusted by means of changing employer. The...
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In this study, we investigate the anatomy of older workers' wages. The central question is whether the wage cushion – i ….e., the difference between actual wages and collectively agreed-upon (maximum) contractual wages – contributes to the fact … that wages continue increasing at older ages. We follow the wages of individual workers in twenty-two sectors of industry …
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The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Our paper … find that apprentices staying with their training firm after graduation have (1) higher wages and (2) longer first …
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In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated level is called the ‘immigration surplus’, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the earnings of native owners of production factors by...
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