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Working from home in the Netherlands : looking inside the blackbox of work and occupations

Mihaylov, Emil - 2022

The paper provides new evidence on the ability to work from home (WFH) for hundreds of Dutch occupations and examines …-skilled occupations such as managers, professionals, technicians and associate professionals, and clerical support workers, while it is … nearly impossible in low-skilled professions such as plant and machine operators and elementary occupations. Around 16% of …

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Measuring the routine and non-routine task content of 427 four-digit ISCO-08 occupations

Mihaylov, Emil; Tijdens, Kea Gartje - 2019

This paper develops new measures of the task content of occupations that are based on the International Standard … Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO-08). Using a detailed set of 3,264 occupation-specific tasks, we construct five measures of …-digit occupations. To generate these measures, first we assign each of the 3,264 tasks to one or more of the five task categories. The …

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Geographical distribution of unemployment : an analysis of provincial differences in Italy

Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Cuffaro, Miranda; Nijkamp, Peter - 2007

Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment disparities of Italian provinces. On the basis of findings...

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Does land use planning shape regional economies?

Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - 2008

Why has job growth over the past decades been weaker in the Dutch Randstad area than in surrounding regions? In a simultaneous equations analysis, we find that employment adjusts to the regional supply of labour. Net internal migration is predominantly determined by regional housing supply and...

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When clusters become networks

Phlippen, Sandra; Knaap, G. A. van der - 2007

Policy makers spend large amounts of public resources on the foundation of science parks and other forms of geographically clustered business activities, in order to stimulate regional innovation. Underlying the relation between clusters and innovation is the assumption that co-located firms...

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The spatial distribution of economic activities in Italy

Dominicis, Laura de; Arbia, Giuseppe; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2007

Existing indices measuring the spatial distribution of economic activity such as the Krugman Specialisation Index, the Hirschmann-Herfindahl index and the Ellison-Glaeser index typically do not take into account the spatial structure of the data. In this paper, we first consider traditional...

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Entrepreneurial progress : climbing the entrepreneurial ladder in Europe and the US

Zwan, Peter van der; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2010 - Version: March 2010

We investigate which countries have the highest potential to achieve entrepreneurial progress. This progress is defined using an entrepreneurial ladder with five successive steps: “never thought about starting a business”, “thinking about starting a business”, “taking steps to start a...

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Diagnostic tools for nonlinearity in spatial models

Graaff, Thomas de; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 1998

There is an increasing awareness of the potential of nonlinear modeling in regional science, which can partly be explained by the recognition of the limitations of conventional equilibrium models in complex situationsand partly by the easy availability and accessibility of sophisticated...

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Economic integration and manufacturing location in EU accession countries

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Siedschlag, Iulia - 2003

This paper investigates patterns of manufacturing location in the context of increased economic integration in Central and East European countries. Using regional data for the period 1990-1999, we identify and compare patterns and determinants of manufacturing location in five European Union...

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Dual earners, urban labor markets and housing demand

Rouwendal, Jan; Straaten, J. Willemijn van der - 2003

This paper replicates Costa and Kahn's analysis of locational choices of couples of highly educated persons for the Netherlands. We find increasing concentration of such power couples in the urbanized western part of the country. This trend occurs in spite of the absence of an urban wage premium...

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