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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

What drives stated preferences about the number of foreigners? Is it self-interest as stressed by the political economy of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with the preference for the aggregate population size? In...

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The Remarkable Place of the UV-Curve in Economic Theory

Rodenburg, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the impact the UV-curve had on economic theory and to provide an account of the subsequent radical changes in its place and role over the decades since its first appearance in 1958. The paper traces the historical development of the UV-curve...

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Models as Measuring Instruments

Rodenburg, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

Nancy Cartwright views models as blueprints for nomological machines - machines which, if properly shielded, generate lawlike behaviour or regularities. Marcel Boumans has argued that we can look for devices inside models which enable us to measure aspects of these regularities. So, if models do...

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Tracing the Changing Measures of Unemployment in Dutch Unemployment Statistics 1900-1940

Rodenburg, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

In the period before the second World War, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics had developed two sets of indicators of unemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of trade unions and the other one on statistical data of labour exchanges. This...

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Multiple Causation and the Measurement of Unemployment

Rodenburg, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

The establishment of appropriate policy measures for fighting unemployment has always been difficult since causes of unemployment are hard to identify. This paper analyses an approach used mainly in the 1960s and 1970s in economics, in which classification is used as a way to deal with such a...

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The Effects of Performance Measurement and Compensation on Motivation

Herpen, Marco van; Praag, C. Mirjam van; Cools, Kees - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

predict that the design and implementation of a performance measurement and compensation system affect the motivation of … compensation system and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is not affected by the design of monetary compensation, but by … promotion opportunities. The compensation system also significantly affects work satisfaction and turnover intent. Our results …

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Optimal Incentive Contracts when Workers envy their Boss

Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

A worker's utility may increase with his income, but envy can make his utility decline with his employer's income. This article uses a principal-agent model to study profit-maximizing contracts when a worker envies his employer. Envy tightens the worker's participation constraint and so calls...

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The Core of Pure Economic Loss

Dari-Mattiacci, Guiseppe; Schäfer, Hans-Bernd - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

that the absence of a social loss is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for the denial of compensation. The victim … (or a third party) may have actually paid for protection against purely private losses. Thus, compensation should be … awarded irrespective of whether national law treats the case under tort or contract (where compensation is undisputed …

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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance

Ejrnaes, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

We study risk behavior of Danish self-employed entrepreneurs, whose income risk may be driven by both exogenous factors and effort choice (moral hazard). Partial insurance is available through voluntary unemployment insurance (UI). Additional incentives to sign insurance contracts stem from a...

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Premium Differentiation in the Unemployment Insurance System and the Demand for Labor

Alessie, Rob J.M.; Bloemen, Hans - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

We simulate the effect of the introduction of premium differentiation (experience rating) in the Dutch Unemployment Insurance system on the demand for labor for a variety of sectors in the Dutch economy. For the simulations we use the Bentolila and Bertola (1990) framework as a point of...

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