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The Industrial and Social Dynamics of Retailing, and Effects of Opening Hours

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

This paper reconstructs the long-term development of retailing, including industrial, economic and social antecedents and consequences. Among other things, it includes innovation in the form of the emergence and diffusion of successive novel types of shop (including self-service), relations...

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Vested Interests and Resistance to Technology Adoption

Canton, E.J.F.; de Groot, H.L.F.; Nahuis, R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

firms’ efficiency are not adopted. This paper explains these observations by emphasizing that a new technology positively … the new technology. If the costs of adoption for workers exceed the benefits, they will aim at keeping the old technology … favours economic growth as it increases the share of the rent associated with the new technology that is being captured by the …

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Language Fluency and Earnings : Estimation with Misclassified Language Indicators

van soest, arthur; Dustmann, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

We use panel data from the German Socio Economic Panel to estimate the determinants of language fluency of immigrants, and its impact on earnings. Self reported measures of language proficiency contain substantial reporting errors. We specify a panel data model which takes explicitly account of...

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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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Immigration, Endogenous Technology Adoption and Wages

Ray Chaudhuri, A.; Pandey, Manish - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2015

We document that immigration to U.S. states has increased the mass of workers at the lower range of the skill distribution. We use this change in skill distribution of workers to analyze the effect of immigration on wages. Our model allows firms to endogenously respond to the immigration-induced...

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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

Since the mid-1960's the Netherlands has had an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and Morocco and immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam.Immigrants have a weak labor market position, which is related to their educational level and language...

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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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Invisible barriers in international labour migration : The case of the Netherlands

van Dalen, H.P.; Henkens, C.J.I.M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

Why is labour mobility in the European Union so low? To shed light on this issue we focus and examine international labour migration intentions of the Dutch potential labour force. A key characteristic of intended labour migration of the Dutch is that its low level and the fact that it is...

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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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