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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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Do Recruiters Select Workers with Different Personality Traits for Different Tasks? A Discrete Choice Experiment

Wehner, Caroline - 2020

This paper explores whether firms recruit workers with different personality traits for different tasks. For our analysis, we used data from a discrete choice experiment conducted among recruiters of 634 firms in Germany. Recruiters were asked to choose between job applicants who differed in...

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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 Role of Peers in Estimating Tenure-Performance Profiles : Evidence from Personnel Data

de Grip, Andries - 2011

In this paper, we estimate tenure-performance profiles using unique panel data that contain detailed information on individual workers' performance. We find that a 10 percent increase in tenure leads to an increase in performance of 5.5 percent of a standard deviation. This translates to an...

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Negative Reciprocity and Retrenched Pension Rights

Montizaan, Raymond Michel - 2012

We document the importance of negatively reciprocal inclinations in labor relationships by showing that a retrenchment of pension rights, which is perceived as unfair, causes a larger reduction in job motivation the stronger workers' negatively reciprocal inclinations are. We exploit unique...

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'Employability-Miles' and Worker Employability Awareness

Gerards, Ruud - 2012

This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training ("Employability-miles") voucher scheme that aims to stimulate employees to develop a more active attitude toward their own employability. Using data from two surveys of the firm's workforce, we find that voucher use is related...

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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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