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How Large is the Compensating Wage Differential for R&D Workers?
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2009
The aim of this paper is to measure the extent to which lower wages in R&D functions reflect a preference effect. In contrast to the bulk of the literature on compensating wage differentials that compares wage levels of jobs with different attributes, we constructed measures of willingness to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159335
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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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The Decline of Early Retirement Pathways in the Netherlands : An Empirical Analysis for the Health Care Sector
Euwals, Rob - 2011
Early retirement schemes and disability insurance in the Netherlands have both been reformed during the past decades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122969
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Collective Bargaining Through the Magnifying Glass : A Comparison between the Netherlands and Portugal
Hijzen, Alexander - 2017
performance. We compare two countries with seemingly similar collective bargaining systems, the Netherlands and Portugal, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943705
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The Short-Term Effect of the COVID-19 Crisis on Employment Probabilities of Labour-Market Entrants in the Netherlands
Bussink, Henri; Vervliet, Tobias; ter Weel, Bas - 2022
Netherlands. Two recent cohorts of graduates are studied and compared to two pre-COVID-19 cohorts: the 2019 cohort was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083731
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Street Prostitution Zones and Crime
Bisschop, Paul - 2015
. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution zones were opened in nine cities under …This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime … street prostitution zone decreases registered sexual abuse and rape by about 30% to 40% in the first two years. For cities …
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Wages or Fringes? Some Evidence on Trade-Offs and Sorting
Eriksson, Tor - 2010
The two key predictions of hedonic wage theory are that there is a trade-off between wages and nonmonetary rewards and that the latter can be used as a sorting device by firms to attract and retain the kind of employees they desire. Empirical analysis of these topics are scarce as they require...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136028
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Partial Identification of Willingness-to-Pay Using Shape Restrictions with an Application to the Value of a Statistical Life
Sojourner, Aaron - 2010
Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people implicit place on attributes of goods using hedonic methods. Usually strong enough assumptions are made on the functional form of utility to point identify individuals' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for changes in attribute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139964
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Subject Choice and Earnings of UK Graduates
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2011
Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of study. We document a large heterogeneity in the mean wages of graduates from different subjects and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126140
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Willingness to Accept Equals Willingness to Pay for Labor Market Estimates of the Value of Statistical Life
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2012
Our research clarifies the conceptual linkages among willingness to pay for additional safety, willingness to accept less safety, and the value of statistical life (VSL). We present econometric estimates that in the important case of workers' decisions concerning exposure to fatal injury risk...
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