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Retaining through Training; Even for OlderWorkers

van Ours, Jan; Picchio, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

heterogeneity. We also take into account that there might be feedback from shocks in the employment status to future propensity of … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …

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Does Family Planning Reduce Infant Mortality? Evidence from Surveillance Data in Matlab, Bangladesh

van soest, arthur; Saha, U.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

Abstract: Analyzing the effect of family planning on child survival remains an important issue but is not straightforward because of several mechanisms linking family planning, birth intervals, total fertility, and child survival. This study uses a dynamic model jointly explaining infant...

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The Miracle Drug : Hormone Replacement Therapy and Labor Market Behavior of Middle-Aged Women

Meltem Daysal, N.; Orsini, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

Abstract: In an aging society, determining which factors contribute to the employment of older individuals is …) on employment of middle-aged women. HRT are drugs taken by middle-aged women to soften symptoms related to menopause … HRT use impacts employment: namely, that HRT use increases employment by 25 percentage points among middle-aged women who …

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Health Cost Risk and Optimal Retirement Provision : A Simple Rule for Annuity Demand

Nijman, Theo; Werker, Bas J.M.; Peijnenburg, J.M.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

We analyze the effect of health cost risk on optimal annuity demand and consumption/savings decisions. Many retirees are exposed to sizeable out-of-pocket medical expenses, while annuities potentially impair the ability to get liquidity to cover these costs and smooth consumption. We find that...

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Fee-for-service, Capitation and Health Provider Choice with Private Contracts

boone, jan - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2014

Contracts between health insurers and providers are private; i.e. not public. By<br/>modelling this explicitly, we find the following. Insurers with bigger provider networks,pay higher fee-for-service rates to providers. This makes it more likely that a patient is treated and hence health care costs...

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Immigration, Endogenous Technology Adoption and Wages

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

of low skilled workers for U.S. states. We further show that immigration increases the wage inequality between workers of … different skill levels in all states, and that the effect of immigration on wages and wage inequality varies systematically with …

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Social Interaction and the Minority-Majority Earnings Inequality : Why Being a Minority Hurts but being a big Minority Hurts More

Kahanec, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

Empirical findings that minorities typically attain lower economic status than majorities and that relatively larger minorities perform worse than smaller ones pose a challenge to economics.To explain this scale puzzle, I model an economy where the society is bifurcated into two social groups...

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Does it Pay to do Well in Competitions? The case of the Queen Elizabeth Piano Competition

van Ours, Jan; Ginsburgh, V. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

Pianists who achieve high scores in the Queen Elizabeth musical competition are rewarded by subsequent success.It is not clear whether this is caused by the score itself or because those who have high scores are better pianists anyway. Since the timing and the order of appearance are good...

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The internal organization of the firm and its external environment

Ruys, Pieter H.M.; van den Brink, J.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1996

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Ranking Dutch Economists

van Ours, Jan; Vermeulen, F.M.P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

This paper ranks Dutch economists using information about publications and citations. Rankings involve the aggregation of several performance dimensions. Instead of using a cardinal approach, where each dimension is weighted based on impact factors of journals for example, we use an ordinal...

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