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The short-term effect of the COVID-19 crisis on employment probabilities of labour-market entrants in the Netherlands

Bussink, Henri; Vervliet, Tobias; Weel, Bas ter - 2022

This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the Netherlands. Two recent cohorts of graduates are studied and compared to two preCOVID-19 cohorts: the 2019 cohort was unexpectedly hit by the COVID-19 crisis about six months after...

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The fast and the studious? : Ramadan observance and student performance

Hanemaaijer, Kyra; Marie, Olivier; Musumeci, Marco - 2023 - This version: April 2023

What are the consequences of religious obligations conflicting with civic duties? We investigate this question by evaluating changes in the performance of practicing Muslim students when end-of-secondary-school exams and Ramadan overlapped in the Netherlands. Using administrative data on exam...

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The (un)importance of school assignment

Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sóvágó, Sándor; … - 2023 - This version: November 2023

We combine data from the Amsterdam secondary-school match with register data and survey data to estimate the effects of not being assigned to one's first-ranked school on academic outcomes and on a wide range of other outcomes. For identification we use that secondaryschool assignment in...

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The impact of family background on educational attainment in Dutch birth cohorts 1966-1995

Atav, Tilbe; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2023

We analyse the evolving impact of family background on educational attainment using administrative data on 2,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children reveal intergenerational elasticities between...

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Regional clusters of innovative activity in Europe : are social capital and geographical proximity the key determinants?

Dominicis, Laura de; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Groot, … - 2011

effectiveness and efficiency of national and European innovation policies. Building on the literature on the knowledge production … regions. Our main research question is whether geographical proximity and social capital are important vehicles of knowledge …

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What old stagers could teach us : examining age complementarities in regional innovation systems

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2014

Concerns have been raised that demographic ageing may weaken the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies and … Germany using a flexible knowledge production function and accounting for potential endogeneity of the regional workforce … presence of older workers as younger and older workers turn out to be complements in the production of knowledge. With …

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