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Health and Income across the Life Cycle and Generations in Europe

Kippersluis, Hans van; Ourti, Tom van; O'Donnell, Owen; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

An age-cohort decomposition applied to panel data identifies how the mean, overall inequality and income-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of...

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Socioeconomic Differences in Health over the Life Cycle in an Egalitarian Country

Kippersluis, Hans van; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Social Science & Medicine' (2010). Volume 70, issue 3, pages 428-438.<P> A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the multidimensional and dynamic nature of the variables, the causal...</p>

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Lifetime Labor Supply in a Search Model of Unemployment

Bettendorf, Leon J.H.; Broer, D. Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation andunemployment by integrating job search with intertemporal optimizing behaviorof finitely-lived households. We find that search frictions and tax ratesdistort the decisions of older workers to a much larger extent than that ofyoung...

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Human Capital and Optimal Positive Taxation of Capital Income

Jacobs, Bas; Bovenberg, A. Lans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on capital and labor incomes in a life-cyclemodel of human capital investment, financial savings, and labor supply with heteroge-nous individuals. A dual income tax with a positive marginal tax rate on not onlylabor income but also capital income is...

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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle

Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 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...

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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas

Neckermann, Susanne; Gibbs, Michael; Siemroth, Christoph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …

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High Performance in Complex Spatial Systems: A Self-Organizing Mapping Approach with Reference to The Netherlands

Kourtit, Karima; Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks …

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The Firms behind the Regions: Analysis of Regional Innovation Performance in Portugal by External Logistic Biplots

Noronha, Teresa de; Galindo, Purificación Vicente; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

The strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy in Portugal have, over the last two decades, produced various … firms located throughout the country, and to explore those innovation determinants that have a region-specific connotation …. In our paper, innovation is used as a major contributor to the policy evaluation process referred to above. To provide a …

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Agglomeration, Innovation and Regional Development: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis

Groot, Henri L.F. de; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally … structure characterised by its extent of specialisation, competition and diversity, to yield innovation and productivity growth … (diversity) and Porter externalities (competition) that have provided alternative explanations for innovation and urban growth …

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