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The remarkable place of the UV-Curve in economic theory

Rodenburg, Peter - 2007

The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the impact the UV-curve had on economic theory and to provide an account of the subsequent radical changes in its place and role over the decades since its first appearance in 1958. The paper traces the historical development of the UV-curve...

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Models as measuring instruments

Rodenburg, Peter - 2004

Nancy Cartwright views models as blueprints for nomological machines - machines which, if properly shielded, generate lawlike behaviour or regularities. Marcel Boumans has argued that we can look for devices inside models which enable us to measure aspects of these regularities. So, if models do...

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Multiple causation and the measurement of unemployment

Rodenburg, Peter - 2004

The establishment of appropriate policy measures for fighting unemployment has always been difficult since causes of unemployment are hard to identify. This paper analyses an approach used mainly in the 1960s and 1970s in economics, in which classification is used as a way to deal with such a...

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Tracing the changing measures of unemployment in Dutch unemployment statistics 1900 - 1940

Rodenburg, Peter - 2001

In the period before the second World War, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics had developed two sets of indicators ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one on statistical data of labour exchanges. This paper...

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Disability and work : the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …

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Estimating the effects of recent disability reforms in the Netherlands

Sonsbeek, Jan-Maarten van; Gradus, Raymond - 2011

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Interactions between financial incentives and health in the early retirement decision

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Galama, Titus J.; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2017

We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals (compared to poorer individuals) are more likely...

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