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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092840
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090385
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091149
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Economic Assimilation and Outmigration of Immigrants in West-Germany
Bellemare, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003
By analyzing earnings of observed immigrants workers, the literature on the economic assimilation of immigrants has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092252
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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
investigates up to what immigration age the educational attainment of young immigrants in the Netherlands is similar to the ….It appears that this borderline immigration age depends on gender and country of origin. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092800
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Labor Tax Reform and Equilibrium Unemployment : A Search and Matching Approach
Heijdra, B.J.; Ligthart, J.E. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004
The paper studies simple strategies of labor tax reform in a search and matching model of the labor market featuring endogenous labor supply.Changing the composition of the tax wedge|that is, reducing a payroll tax and increasing a progressive wage tax such that the marginal tax wedge remains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090457
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Effective Labor Market Policies
boone, jan; van Ours, Jan - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004
We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of different types of active labor market policies (ALMP).In our empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the time period 1985-1999.We find that labor market training is the most effective program to bring down...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090817
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Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions : An Empirical Analysis
van Ours, Jan; Belot, M.V.K. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001
The development of the unemployment rate di¤ers substantially between OECD countries.In this paper we investigate to what extent these differences are related to labor market institutions.In our analysis we use data of eighteen OECD countries over the period 1960-1994 and show that the way in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091593
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090782
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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 changes in skill distribution in terms of their decisions (i) to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166201