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Why Do Low-Educated Workers Invest Less in Further Training?

Fouarge, Didier - 2010

Several studies document the fact that low-educated workers participate less often in further training than high-educated workers. The economic literature suggests that there is no significant difference in employer willingness to train low-educated workers, which leaves the question of why the...

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Redistribution of Individual Pension Wealth to Survivor Pensions : Evidence from a Stated Preferences Analysis

de Grip, Andries - 2019

pension of their partner. However, due to lacking communication and knowledge of survivor pensions among workers, and also due … working life does not affect the redistribution to survivor pensions. However, the distribution of the contribution to total … preference for redistribution to survivor pensions also depends significantly on personal characteristics, preferences and social …

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Personality Traits, Migration Intentions, and Cultural Distance

Fouarge, Didier - 2019

This paper investigates the relationship between Big Five personality traits and individuals' intentions to migrate in countries that vary in their culture. Using data collected from university students in Germany, we find that extraversion and openness are positively associated with migration...

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Gradual Retirement, Financial Incentives, and Labour Supply of Older Workers : Evidence from a Stated Preference Analysis

Elsayed, Ahmed - 2015

Using data from a stated preferences experiment in the Netherlands, we find that replacing full-time pension schemes with schemes that offer gradual retirement opportunities induce workers to retire one year later on average. Total life-time labour supply, however, decreases with 3.4 months...

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Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?

Nelen, Annemarie - 2011

This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a unique dataset on the Dutch pharmacy sector that includes the work hours of all employees and a hard physical measure of firm productivity, we estimate a production function...

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The Relation between Maternal Work Hours and Cognitive Outcomes of Young School-Aged Children

Nelen, Annemarie - 2013

This paper is the first that analyzes the relation between maternal work hours and the cognitive outcomes of young school-going children. When children attend school, the potential time working mothers miss out with their children, is smaller than when children do not yet attend school. At the...

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How Sensitive are Individual Retirement Expectations to Raising the Retirement Age?

de Grip, Andries - 2013

This paper investigates the causal effects of the announcement of an increase in the statutory pension age on employee retirement expectations. In June 2010, the Dutch government signed a new pension agreement with the employer and employee organizations that entailed an increase in the...

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Occupational Sorting of School Graduates : The Role of Economic Preferences

Fouarge, Didier - 2014

We relate risk attitudes and patience of young graduates from high-school, college and university, measured around the time that they start their labor market career in a large representative survey, to the riskiness and timing of earnings in the occupations they choose to work in. We find a...

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Training Access, Reciprocity, and Expected Retirement Age

Montizaan, Raymond Michel - 2015

This paper investigates whether employers can induce employees to postpone retirement by offering access to training courses that maintain job proficiency. We use unique, matched employer–employee surveys for the Dutch public sector, which include detailed information on a wide range of HR...

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Wage Cyclicality Under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations

Gartner, Hermann - 2010

Since there is scant evidence on the role of industrial relations in wage cyclicality, this paper analyzes the effect of collective wage contracts and of works councils on real wage growth. Using linked employer-employee data for western Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth...

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