Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences … compared to other non-western immigrants but they still suffer from high unemployment. The study also documents that the … quality of jobs is significantly lower for immigrants, especially for those who are at larger cultural distance to Dutch …

decreasing in the substitutability of worker types. This cost of search is then decomposed into three components: unemployment … workers being more choosy. The resulting equilibrium is not efficient. Unemployment benefits can reduce the loss by serving as …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment … the employment rate at age 40 with around 21 percentage points. Our results show that early childhood conditions are …

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. …