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Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments
Albrecht, James; Vuuren, Aico van; Vroman, Susan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light onthe sources of the gender gap in the Netherlands, we make two … simulate. Second, we show how the technique can be extended toaccount for selection.We find that there is a positive selection … time. We find that about two-thirds of this selection isdue to observables such as education and experience with the …
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The Attractiveness of Temporary Employment to Reduce Adjustment Costs
Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
In this paper I determine the importance of adjustment costs in employers hiring decisions. Temporary work arrangements offer potential ways to avoid adjustment costs. I estimate employers willingness to pay for the characteristics of these work arrangements. I distinguish regular contracts,...
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The Connexion between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction
Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed inthe nineties by Oswald ,Clark , Blanchflower and others with the older incomeevaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in theseventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield...
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Measuring the Economic Value of a Marine Protection Program against the Introduction of Non-Indigenous Species in the Netherlands
Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
Harmful algal bIoom species are the cause of important damages to marine living resources and human beings. These marine species are primarily introduced in North-European waters through ballast water, i.e. water trans-ported across the oceans so as to keep a vessel in balance. Port authorities...
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Thought for Food: Understanding Educational Disparities in Food Consumption
Koç, Hale; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
Higher educated individuals are healthier and live longer than their lower educated peers. One reason is that lower educated individuals engage more in unhealthy behaviours including consumption of a poor diet, but it is not clear why they do so. In this paper we develop an economic theory of...
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Evaluation Problem versus Selection Problem in Organizational Structures
Ficco, Stefano; Karamychev, Vladimir - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
We consider a hierarchical organization with two fully rational agents. The goal of the organization is that of selecting the best alternative out of several available, and agents are heterogenous in the accuracy with which they screen the alternatives. We show that, if internal communications...
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On the Merits of Meritocracy
Morgan, John; Sisak, Dana; Vardy, Felix - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
We study career choice when competition for promotion is a contest. A more meritocratic profession always succeeds in attracting the highest ability types, whereas a profession with superior promotion benefits attracts high types only if the hazard rate of the noise in performance evaluation is...
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Better Safe than Sorry? Ex Ante and Ex Post Moral Hazard in Dynamic Insurance Data
Abbring, Jaap; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Zavadil, Tibor - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This paper empirically analyzes moral hazard in car insurance using a dynamic theory of an insuree's dynamic risk (ex ante moral hazard) and claim (ex post moral hazard) choices and Dutch longitudinal micro data. We use the theory to characterize the heterogeneous dynamic changes in incentives...
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Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Sorensen, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm-level database. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the difference in the amount of foreign investment by financial and industrial investors and simultaneously controlling...
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Disciplining and Screening Top Executives
Martinez, Silvia Dominguez; Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
Boards of directors face the twin task of disciplining and screening executives. To perform these tasks directors do not have detailed information about executives' behaviour, and only infrequently have information about the success or failure of initiated strategies, reorganizations, mergers...
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