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Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively …
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Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the …
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Firms hiring fresh graduates face uncertainty on the future productivity of workers. Intuitively, one expects starting wages to reflect this. Formal analysis supports the intuition. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education as an indicator of the heterogeneity that...
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Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on its effect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a multivariate competing-risks hazard model is...
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). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany … language proficiency. Third, for the Netherlands we find a positive relation between naturalisation and labour market position … Netherlands, and this may lead to a stronger incentive to naturalise for workers with a temporary contract …
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Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … employment and tenured job rate remains large for the Netherlands, while the standardized gap in the job prestige score remains … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …
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This study investigates the determinants and motives of professionals who change career to vocational teaching. The … a prior career in that specific field. Thus, to work in teaching, every vocational teacher has to change his or her … initial career. This paper focuses on the relevance of monetary motives for changing a career to teaching. Using a unique data …
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Outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries has increased the focus on the accumulation of skills - such as Math skills - in high-wage countries. In this paper, we exploit a high school pilot scheme to identify the causal effect of advanced high school Math on labor market outcomes. The pilot...
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The private provision of educational services has been representing an increasing fraction of the Peruvian schooling system, especially in recent last decades. While there have been many claims about the differences in quality between private and public schools, there is no complete assessment...
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We estimate long-run impacts to the Pathways to Education program, a comprehensive set of coaching, tutoring, group activities and financial incentives offered to disadvantaged students beginning in Grade 9. High school administrative records are matched to income tax records to follow...
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