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Unsuccessful subjective well-being assimilation among immigrants : the role of faltering perceptions of the host society
Hendriks, Martijn; Burger, Martijn J. - 2018
their subjective well-being remains lower than that of natives. This contrasts with migrants' own expectations and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924808
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Employment assimilation of immigrants in the Netherlands : catching up and the irrelevance of education
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003739082
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Employment assimilation of immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2008
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 immigrants never fully catch up. Caribbean immigrants,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376490
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The urban growth potential of second-generation migrant entrepreneurs : a sectoral study on Amsterdam
Baycan Levent, Tüzin; Nijkamp, Peter; Şahín, Medíha - 2009
This study focuses on the external orientations of the second-generation migrant entrepreneurs by addressing in particular the way – and the extent to which – the choice for entrepreneurship is made by higher-educated young ethnic generations. The empirical data of our study is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377832
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The urban growth potential of second-generation migrant entrepreneurs : a sectoral study on Amsterdam
Baycan Levent, Tüzin; Nijkamp, Peter; Sahin, Mediha - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003830586
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On the origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from sibling correlations
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van; … - 2016
Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at a young age by factors that are unrelated to current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539965
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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality
Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2022 - This version: December 2022
This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472300
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Individual mortality and macro-economic conditions from birth to death
Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - 2003
death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334361
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Parental education and child health : evidence from a schooling reform
Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006
This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic … child health are at most modest. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350377
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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 … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122587