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A Life-Cycle Model of Outmigration and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants in Germany

Bellemare, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

This paper estimates a structural dynamic life-cycle model of outmigration where, in each period, immigrants choose whether to work in the host country, not to work but remain in the host country, or outmigrate.The model incorporates several features of existing life-cycle theories of...

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Identification and Estimation of Economic Models of Outmigration using Panel Attrition

Bellemare, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

Because their departures are difficultly observed, little is known about the performance of immigrants who leave their adoptive homeland.This paper shows conditions under which the (conditional) outmigration probability, work probability and the expected earnings of outmigrants are...

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Emigration Intentions : Mere Words or True Plans? Explaining International Migration Intentions and Behavior

van Dalen, H.P.; Henkens, K. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2008

Do people follow up on their intentions? In this paper we confront the emigration intentions formed by inhabitants of … the Netherlands during the year 2004-2005 and the emigration steps they took in the subsequent two years. Three results … stand out. First, it appears that intentions are good predictors of future emigration: 24 percent of those who had stated an …

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The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands

van Ours, Jan; Veenman, J.M.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

chance of integration into Dutch society.In this paper we investigate whether this is true with respect to the educational …

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The Netherlands : Old Emigrants - Young Immigrant Country

van Ours, Jan; Veenman, J.M.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

Since the mid 1960s the Netherlands has an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and Morocco and because of immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam. Immigrant workers have a weak labour market position, which is mainly related to their educational...

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Age at Immigration and Educational Attainment of Young Immigrants

van Ours, Jan; Veenman, J.M.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

For immigrants who arrive in a country at a young age it is easier to assimilate than for teenagers.This paper investigates up to what immigration age the educational attainment of young immigrants in the Netherlands is similar to the educational attainment of secondgeneration immigrants, who...

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From parent to Child : Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands

van Ours, Jan; Veenman, J.M.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002

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Hours Constraints Within and Between Jobs

Euwals, R.W. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1997

In the empirical literature on labour supply, several models are developed to incorporate constraints on working hours. These models do not address the question to which extent working hours are constrained within and between jobs. In this paper I investigate the effect of individual changes in...

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Recessions are Bad for Workplace Safety

boone, jan; van Ours, Jan; Wuellrich, J.P.; Zweimuller, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

Workplace accidents are an important economic phenomenon. Yet, the pro-cyclical fl uctuations in workplace accidents are not well understood. They could be related to fluctuations in effort and working hours, but workplace accidents may also be affected by reporting behavior. Our paper uses...

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Job Searchers, Job Matches and the Elasticity of Matching

van Ours, Jan; Broersma, L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

This paper stresses the importance of a specification of the matching function in which the measure of job matches corresponds to the measure of job searchers. In many empirical studies on the matching function this requirement has not been fulfilled because it is difficult to find information...

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