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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 … productivity, we estimate a production function including heterogeneous employment shares based on work hours. We find that a … larger part-time employment share leads to greater firm productivity. Additional data on the timing of labor demand show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131420
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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier : Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2015
are more dispersed in the Netherlands.In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035179
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Counterfactual Analysis in Macroeconometrics : An Empirical Investigation into the Effects of Quantitative Easing
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012
This paper is concerned with ex ante and ex post counterfactual analyses in the case of macroeconometric applications where a single unit is observed before and after a given policy intervention. It distinguishes between cases where the policy change affects the model's parameters and where it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104950
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Econometric Models of Fertility
Miranda, Alfonso - 2020
This paper reviews some key contributions to econometric analysis of human fertility in the last 20 years, with special focus on discussion of prevailing econometric modeling strategies. We focus on the literature that highlights the role of the key drivers of the birth outcomes, including age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831218
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Phillips Curves and Unemployment Dynamics : A Critique and a Holistic Perspective
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
The conventional wisdom that inflation and unemployment are unrelated in the long-run implies the compartmentalisation of macroeconomics. While one branch of the literature models inflation dynamics and estimates the unemployment rate compatible with inflation stability, another one determines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317465
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Retaining Through Training : Even for Older Workers
Picchio, Matteo - 2011
Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127957
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Scale Economies Can Offset the Benefits of Competition : Evidence from a School Consolidation Reform in a Universal Voucher System
de Haan, Monique - 2011
A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129092
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Job Search Requirements for Older Unemployed : Transitions to Employment, Early Retirement and Disability Benefits
Bloemen, Hans - 2011
In this paper, we use a recent policy change in the Netherlands to study how changes in search requirements for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131161
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Time-Bound Opportunity Costs of Informal Care : Consequences for Access to Professional Care, Caregiver Support, and Labour Supply Estimates
Hassink, Wolter H.J. - 2011
Patterns of informal care are documented throughout the day with Dutch time use diary data. The diary data enable us to identify a, so far overlooked, source of opportunity costs of informal care, i.e. the necessity to perform particular tasks of informal care at specific moments of the day....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131170
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Private Wealth and Planned Early Retirement : A Panel Data Analysis for the Netherlands, 1994-2009
van Ooijen, Raun - 2010
We study the causal relation between private wealth and retirement age. We propose two estimation strategies based on expected retirement age. The outcome variable is observed repeatedly over time. We correct first for the unobserved heterogeneity in the disutility of work by using panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135647