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The Economics of Co-ethnic Employment; Incentives, Welfare Effects and Policy Options

Butter, Frank A.G. den; Masurel, Enno; Mosch, Robert - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

for employees to work in co-ethnic firms. It argues that strong social networks and related high intra-group trust …

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Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

In this paper we evaluate the QALY loss, which may be assigned to the prevalence of specific chronic illnesses and physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British Household Panel Survey data set. This question provides a...

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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation

Janssens, Wendy - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...

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Strong Ties in a Small World

Leij, Marco van der; Goyal, Sanjeev - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

In this paper we test the celebrated `Strength of weak ties' theory of Granovetter (1973). We test two hypotheses on the network structure in a data set of collaborating economists. While we find support for the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, we reject the hypothesis that weak ties...

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Trust and Economic Growth

Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Schaik, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … the relationship between trust and growth in terms of both the size and the significance of the estimated effect, is … highly dependent on the set of conditioning variables. An answer to the question whether there is an economic payoff of trust …

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Trade, Trust and Transaction Cost

Butter, Frank A.G. den; Mosch, Robert H.J. - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the "mystery of missing trade" can be attributed to … the lack of trust between trading partners, e.g. because of cultural differences and habits, or because of insufficient …

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Diffusion of a Social Norm: Tracing the Emergence of the Housewife in the Netherlands, 1812-1922

Poppel, Frans W.A. van; Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Walhout, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

The emergence of the housewife in the Netherlands over the period 1812-1922 was strongly influenced by the social norm that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected in the emergence of the housewife among the lower...

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On the Timing of Marriage, Cattle and Weather Shocks

Hoogeveen, Hans; Klaauw, Bas van der; Lomwel, Gijsbert van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

In this paper we focus on the timing of marriages of women, whose marriages are associated with bride wealth payments, which are transfers from (the family of) the groom to the bride's family. Unmarried daughters could therefore be considered assets who, at times of need, can be cashed in. We...

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An Indirect Utility Model of Multiple Car Ownership and Use

Rouwendal, Jan; Pommer, John - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

The number of households with two or more cars is steadily increasing over time. The reason is that ownership of a single car imposes restrictions on car use when there are multiple license holders in a household. If such restrictions are severe, the benefits of multiple-car ownership may exceed...

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Trade Reform and Labor Market Dynamics

Botman, Dennis P.J.; Tieman, Alexander F. - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

We present an equilibrium-search model with heterogenous workers who search for a job in one of two sectors and who lose part of their skills during unemployment. We show that an import tariff increase the wage and the employment prospects in the protected sector. This results in a labor market...

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