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administrative data obtained from Statistics Netherlands. Excluding firms in the hospitality industry and other industries that …
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chapter explores how Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, in terms of the strengths and vulnerabilities of their labour market …
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market is characterised by greater flexibility in wages and work arrangements in comparison to Germany. These institutional … Netherlands should be more responsive to economic changes. On the other hand, there is unlikely to be such a divergence in capital …
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with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany …, Hungary and the Netherlands – to provide a reconsideration of the impact of economic wellbeing on happiness. The main …
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population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …
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This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behaviour. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....
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, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … – Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
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The paper studies the demand for foreign graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile high-skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin, skills, and...
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Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important for … and tenured job rate remains large for the Netherlands, while the standardized gap in the job prestige score remains large …
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We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...
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