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Male and female labour force participation: the role of dynamic adjustments to changes in labour demand, government policies and autonomous trends

Maarten, Vendrik; Frank, Cörvers - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2009

This study investigates the extent and speed of dynamic adjustment of labour supply to changes in labour demand, government policies and autonomous trends. We estimate error-correction models (ECMs) for male and female participation rates in the Netherlands between 1969 and 2004. The results...

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The role of geographic mobility in reducing education-job mismatches in the Netherlands

Hensen Maud M.; de, Vries M. Robert; Frank, Cörvers - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2009

expected at the beginning of the career. For thispurpose we use data on secondary and higher vocational education graduates in … theperiod 1996–2001. We show that graduates who are mobile have higher probabilityof fi nding jobs at the acquired education ….Th is suggests that mobility is sought to prevent not only having to take a job belowthe acquired education level, but also …

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The Delimitation and Coherence of Functional and Administrative Regions

Frank, Cörvers; Hensen M.; Bongaerts D. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2006

The aim of this paper is to examine the coherence between and within functional as well as administrative regions in a labour market context. The larger the coherence of the local labour markets within the delimited regions, the larger the heterogeneity between the delimited regions is expected...

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The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research

Lex, Borghans; Frank, Cörvers - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2009

education started to grow substantiallyaround 1960, only a few decades later, research and higher education transformedgradually …

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Occupational Structures across 25 EU Countries: The Importance of Industry Structure and Technology in Old and New EU Countries

Frank, Cörvers; Jaanika, Meriküll - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2008

This paper analyzes the occupational structures of 25 European Union countries during the period 2000-2004. Shift-share analyses have been used to decompose cross-country differences in occupational structure into within industry and between industry effects. The static analysis for 2004 shows...

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The effects of pension rights and retirement age on training participation: Evidence from a natural experiment

Raymond, Montizaan; Frank, Cörvers; de, Grip Andries - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2009

This paper uses a natural experiment approach to identify the effects of an exogenouschange in future pension benefits on workers’ training participation. We use uniquematched survey and administrative data for male employees in the Dutch public sectorwho were born in 1949 or 1950. Only the...

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Estimating employment dynamics across occupations and sectors of industry

Frank, Cörvers; Arnaud, Dupuy - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2009

In this paper, we estimate the demand for workers by sector and occupation usingsystem dynamics OLS techniques to account for the employment dynamics dependenceacross occupations and sectors of industry. The short run dynamics are decomposed intointra and intersectoral dynamics. We find that...

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