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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences …
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Long-Run Effects of Gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes
Scholte, Robert S.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2012
during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more years after birth, as well as effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645855
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008484063
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Disability and Work: the Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment … the employment rate at age 40 with around 21 percentage points. Our results show that early childhood conditions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137003
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Same Work, Lower Grade? Student Ethnicity and Teachers’ Subjective Assessments
Ewijk, Reyn van - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority teachers. Why this is the case was unclear. This paper focuses on one important potential explanation: I examine whether ethnic majority teachers grade minority and majority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764968
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Migration and Immigrants: The Case of the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 2001
This paper surveys migration to and from the Netherlands since the sixteenth century with an emphasis on the post-war period. Existing studies on the labour market performance of immigrants and ethnic minorities are considered and some new results from our recent research are presented. <BR><BR>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137037
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Car ownership and the Labor Market of Ethnic Minorities
Gautier, Pieter A.; Zenou, Yves - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137294
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The Effect of Immigration on Native Earnings
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 2000
This study investigates the extent of labour market competition among native Dutch workers and ethnic minorities, using national survey of the SEO and the Population statistics of the CBS. Firstly, the direct effect of immigrants on local labour markets is considered. It is shown that ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137390
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Education-related Inequity in Health Care with Heterogeneous Reporting of Health
d'Uva, Teresa Bago; Lindeboom, Maarten; O'Donnell, Owen; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752535
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Hospitals, Employees and Parking
Ommeren, Jos van; Russo, Giovanni - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
We study the employees' demand for hospital parking. We estimate the effect of the employees' parking price on demand using a difference-in-differences methodology. The deadweight loss generated by non-optimal pricing of parking is at least 9% of the hospitals' parking resource costs.
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