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Employment assimilation of immigrants in the Netherlands

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2008

irrelevance of education for socio-economic position of immigrants once the country of origin has been controlled for. …Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences … between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation …

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A collective household model of time allocation : a comparison of native Dutch and immigrant households in the Netherlands

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2006

Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean and Dutch households...

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Employment assimilation of immigrants in the Netherlands : catching up and the irrelevance of education

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2008

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A public good version of the collective household model : an empirical approach with an application to British household data

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2008

In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for twoearnerhouseholds. The novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collectivehousehold model, where the internally produced goods and the externally purchased goodsare assumed to be public....

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Empirical estimation results of a collective household time allocation model

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2005

In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household utility function which is a weighted sum of the utility...

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Intra-household work time synchronization : togetherness or material benefits?

Klaveren, Chris van; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte - 2005

If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in order to increase the amount of joint leisure. In order to control for differences in constraints and selection effects, this paper uses a new matching procedure, providing...

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Intra-household work timing : the effect on joint activities and the demand for child care

Klaveren, Chris van; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte; … - 2011

This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...

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The effect of immigration on native earnings

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2000

national survey of the SEO and the Population statistics ofthe CBS. Firstly, the directeffect of immigrants on local labour … wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less … skillednatives are a little adverselyaffected by immigrants. …

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Living apart together : the economic value of ethnic diversity in cities

Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Groot, Henri … - 2018

In consumer cities, the presence and location of immigrants impacts house prices through two channels, which both can … the presence of immigrants on house prices. Diversity of immigrant-induced amenities has an additional positive effect on …

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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework

Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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