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Learning, Sophistication, and the Returns to Advertising : Implications for Differences in Firm Performance
Tadelis, Steve; Hooton, Christopher; Manjeer, Utsav; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Why do establishments exhibit wide variation in their productivity and profitability? Can variation in returns to advertising help answer this question? We present results from a large field experiment on Facebook and Instagram that documents variance in advertisers' ability to generate returns...
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The Effects of Social Insurance Benefits on Leaving Employment at Older Ages in the Netherlands
Kalwij, Adriaan S.; Kapteyn, Arie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In the Netherlands, from 1989 to 2013, in the age group 55-63 the annual exit rate from employment to receiving social …
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Long-term care in the Netherlands
Bakx, Pieter; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; Wouterse, Bram - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We describe the financing and use of long-term care in the Netherlands. Public long-term care insurance is universal … findings reveal that no other country spends more per capita on publicly financed formal care than The Netherlands. A potential … reason is that the threshold to receive formal care appears to be lower in the Netherlands than in other countries. Still, a …
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The Geography of Capital Allocation in the Euro Area
Beck, Roland; Coppola, Antonio; Lewis, Angus J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
" (OOFCs) within the Euro Area. The OOFCs of Luxembourg, Ireland, and the Netherlands serve dual roles as both hubs of …
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Financial Systems, Economic Growth, and Globalization
Rousseau, Peter L. - 2001
This paper brings together two strands of the economic literature -- that on the finance-growth nexus and that on capital market integration -- and explores key issues surrounding each strand through both institutional/country histories and formal quantitative analysis. We begin with studies of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470401
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Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Displacement
Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001
We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an empirical version of the model using personnel data from Fokker Aircraft that cover the path of layoffs and quits through its bankruptcy. We find that the firm learns about its...
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Change, Consolidation, and Competition in Health Care Markets
Gaynor, Martin - 1998
The health care industry is being transformed. Large firms are merging and acquiring other firms. Alliances and contractual relations between players in this market are shifting rapidly. Within the next few years, many markets are predicted to be dominated by a few large firms. Antitrust...
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Tax Reform and the Dutch Labor Market : An Applied General Equilibrium Approach
Bovenberg, A. Lans - 1998
This paper employs MIMIC, an applied general equilibrium model of the Dutch economy, to explore various tax cuts aimed at combating unemployment and raising labor supply. MIMIC combines modern labor-market theories, a firm empirical foundation detailed description of Dutch labor-market...
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Changing Inequality in Markets for Workplace Amenities
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1998
We know that earnings inequality has increased sharply in the United States since the late 1970s, but there has been no evidence on the changing inequality of nonmonetary aspects of work nor on how any such changes are related to changes in earnings. I begin by studying patterns of interindustry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472289
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Social Security and Retirement in The Netherlands
Kapteyn, Arie - 1997
Compared to other industrialized countries, the labor force participation of the elderly in the Netherlands is very low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472678