Similar Search Results

Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2004

We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff gains for the short side of the market. We also find that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335225

The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326414

The mental health effects of retirement

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019

We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heterogeneous by gender and marital status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122587

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 … on statistical data of labour exchanges. This paper explores the historical development ofthese indicators and tries to … of the indicators had changed. Finally, in order to get insightin the reliability of the two measures of unemployed they …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317467