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Endogenous local labour markets, regional aggregation and agglomeration economies
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2019
administrative data, we define local labour markets (LLMs) based on the worker's commuting outcomes, gender and educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136998
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Fired and pregnant: gender differences in job flexibility outcomes after job loss
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2020
We study whether women and men cope with job loss differently. We use 2006-2017 Dutch administrative monthly microdata and a quasi-experimental design involving job displacement because of firm bankruptcy. We find that displaced women are more likely than displaced men to take up a flexible job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296294
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The role of the housing market in workers' resilience to job displacement after firm bankruptcy
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2017
substantial losses in employment and wage, an increase in the commuting distance and a decrease in the probability of moving home … pronounced, whereas the increase in the commuting distance diminishes. Also, we examine the role of workers' housing tenure in … owners are more rapidly re-employed and experience a smaller increase in the commuting distance, but experience also a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704330
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Labour demand and job-to-job movement : macro-economic behaviour
Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Broersma, Lourens - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000122470
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Do early life and contemporaneous macro-conditions explain health at older ages?
Portrait, France; Alessie, Rob; Deeg, Dorly - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003756558
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The glass door : the gender composition of newly-hired workers across hierarchical job levels
Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Russo, Giovanni - 2010
This paper examines the gender composition of the flow of new hirees along the organizational hierarchy of jobs. We find that women have a reduced chance to be hired at higher hierarchical levels. We refer to this phenomenon as the "glass door". The glass door consists of an absolute and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003949480
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Long-run longevity effects of a nutritional shock early in life : the Dutch potato famine of 1846 - 1847
Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor);  … - 2007
Dutch faced in 1846-47. The individual data are from the Historical Sample of the Netherlands and are augmented by food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003583130
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The role of early-life conditions in the cognitive decline due to adverse events later in life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Deeg, Dorly J.H.; Lindeboom, … - 2010
Cognitive functioning of elderly individuals may be affected by events such as the loss of a (grand)child or partner or the onset of a serious chronic condition, and by negative economic shocks such as job loss or the reduction of pension benefits. It is conceivable that the impact of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941481
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Workforce reorganization and the worker
Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2011
In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs and laying off individual workers in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed and estimated using personnel data from a firm in demise comparing the characteristics of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309543
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Multiple glass ceilings
Russo, Giovanni; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2011
ceiling is a pervasive phenomenon. In the Netherlands it affects about 88% of jobs, and 81% of Dutch women in employment work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310064