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The economics and econometrics of gene-environment interplay

Biroli, Pietro; Galama, Titus; Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2022

Economists and social scientists have debated the relative importance of nature (one's genes) and nurture (one's environment) for decades, if not centuries. This debate can now be informed by the ready availability of genetic data in a growing number of social science datasets. This paper...

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The wage penalty of dialect-speaking

Ours, Jan C. van; Yao, Yuxin - 2016

Our paper studies the effects of dialect-speaking on job characteristics of Dutch workers, in particular on their hourly wages. The unconditional difference in median hourly wages between standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about 10.6% for males and 6.7% for females. If we take into...

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Simultaneous search with heterogeneous firms and ex post competition

Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2006

matching rate in the high-productivity sector can then be realized with fewer applications (and consequently fewer coordination …

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Human capital, firm capabilities, and innovation

Bhaskarbhatla, Ajay; Hegde, Deepak; Peeters, Thomas - 2017

Are differences in inventor productivity due to differences in inventors’ skills or differences in the capabilities of the firms they work for? We analyze a 37-year panel that tracks the patenting of U.S. inventors and find strong evidence for serial correlation in inventors’ productivity....

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Green technology adoption and skill reallocation

Nijs, Sacha J. den; Tyros, Stefanos - 2023

The green transition towards a carbon neutral economy constitutes a technological transformation, in which firms need to invest in new, clean technologies. In order to be operated, these new technologies often require a set of technology-specific skills that differ from those that were relevant...

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International assortative matchingin the European labor market

Peeters, Thomas; Ours, Jan C. van - 2022

We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high … productivity estimates and study the ensuing rank correlation to gauge the degree of assortative matching within and across … countries. We find strong evidence for positive assortative matching at the national level, and even more so at the …

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Determinants of the regional demand for higher education

Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Rietveld, Piet - 2003

Studies on the determinants of the demand for higher education typically emphasizethe relevance of socio-economic factors, but leave the spatial dimensions of the prospectivestudents’ university choices largely unexplored. In this study, we investigate the determinantsof university entrance...

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The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling : a nonparametric bounds analysis

Haan, Monique de - 2008

This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent version of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We start with making no assumptions and then add...

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The consequences of implementing a child care voucher : evidence from Australia, the Netherlands and USA

Warner, Mildred; Gradus, Raymond - 2009

In the Netherlands, the USA and Australia public funding has promoted parental choice by introducing a voucher for child care, where parents are free to choose the provider. The policy experiments in these three countries and the outcomes provide useful information about the consequences of...

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Measurement error in education and growth regressions

Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...

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