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Married with Children : A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information

Cherchye, L. - 2010

We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell, Chiappori and Meghir (2005). In our model, adults' individual preferences do not only depend on own leisure and individual private consumption of market goods. They also depend on...

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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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Conspicuous Work : Peer Working Time, Labour Supply and Happiness for Male Workers

Collewet, Marion - 2015

This paper uncovers 'conspicuous work' as a new form of status seeking that can explain social interactions in labour supply. We analyse how peer working time relates to both labour supply and happiness for Dutch male workers. Using a unique measure of peer weekly working time, we find that...

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Job Search During a Pandemic Recession : Survey Evidence from the Netherlands

Balgova, Maria; Trenkle, Simon; Zimpelmann, Christian; … - 2021

Netherlands (LISS) and complement the core survey with our own COVID-specific module, conducted in June 2020, surveying job search …

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Costs and Benefits of an Individual Learning Account (Ila) : A Simulation Analysis for the Netherlands

Bussink, Henri; ter Weel, Bas - 2022

This study analyses costs and benefits of a public-private funded individual learning account (ILA) for the labour … force in the Netherlands. We consider an ILA that is funded by subsidies targeted at low- and medium-educated workers and co …

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Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness : Adjusting to Loss

Hamermesh, Daniel; Myck, Michal; Oczkowska, Monika - 2022

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...

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Empirical Evaluation of Broader Job Search Requirements for Unemployed Workers

Klaauw, Bas van der; Vethaak, Heike - 2022

This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However,...

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Does Offshoring Shape Labor Market Imperfections? A Comparative Analysis of Belgian and Dutch Firms

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Fuss, Catherine; vancauteren, mark - 2023

level in Belgium and the Netherlands. Wage-markup pricing stemming from workers' monopoly power is more prevalent than wage …

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Ethnic Employment Gaps of Graduates in the Netherlands

Bisschop, Paul; ter Weel, Bas; Zwetsloot, Jelle - 2021

This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006 … education, which is a group of graduates with many people from ethnic minorities. We document ethnic employment gaps by using an … secondary vocational education and the field of study or socioeconomic background and household and neighbourhood …

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Workforce Reorganization and the Worker

Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2021

In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs and laying off individual workers in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed and estimated using personnel data from a firm in demise comparing the characteristics of the...

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