This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the … labour market in the midst of a lockdown. Our estimation results suggest short-term effects of lockdowns on employment …

transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search … nonparticipation (both out of unemployed search and employment) are positively affected by the husband's income (while no effect is … found for transitions out of nonparticipation). Men seem to move from employment into unemployed search easier the higher is …

This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006 …-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates with graduates from Moroccan, Turkish … education, which is a group of graduates with many people from ethnic minorities. We document ethnic employment gaps by using an …

This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … employment has been growing by 2 percent in the period 2017-2023, of which 1.8 percent has been due to additional workers finding … employment. Women have experienced the largest increase in employment, while the employment of men on temporary contracts has …

Many OECD countries are facing decreases in the employment rates of disabled workers. To uncover the driving forces of …) application cohorts for the Netherlands between 1999 and 2013. Our main finding is that the substantial decrease in employment … changing individual employment rates. …

Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment published by CambridgeUniversity Press in 1999. The continued rising unemployment … industry and employment. These relationsprovide the building blocks of a new industrial policy. The articles areincluded in … inevitabletradeoff between greater employment but at the sacrifice of lower wages on theone hand, versus the maintenance of wages and …

We study optimal government spending in a business cycle model with frictional unemployment. The Ramsey optimal policy … consumption is always countercyclical); iii) stabilizes employment, in some cases even at the cost of higher consumption …