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Involuntary Absence from an Organizational Point of View

de Kok, Jan M.P. - 1997

Involuntary absence is often seen as an exogenous factor, but firms can take actions to reduceit. In this paper the notion that firms, especially SMEs, are faced with a single decisionwhether or not to undertake these actions is questioned. A firm model on involuntary absencemeasures is...

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Are Workers with a Long Commute Less Productive? An Empirical Analysis of Absenteeism

van Ommeren, Jos - 2009

We hypothesize, and test for, a negative effect of the length of the commute on worker's productivity, by examining whether the commute has a positive effect on worker's absenteeism. Our estimates for Germany indicate that commuting distance induces absenteeism with an elasticity of about 0.07....

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Screening Disability Insurance Applications

de Jong, Philip; Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006

This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed to screen applications more intense. The...

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ICT and Substitution between Out-of-home and At-home Work; the Importance of Timing

de Graaff, Thomas; Rietveld, Piet - 2003

This paper investigates the determinants of at home and out-of-home labor supply in the Netherlands in the 199s …

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Bayesian Combinations of Stock Price Predictions with an Application to the Amsterdam Exchange Index

Billio, Monica - 2012

We summarize the general combination approach by Billio et al. [2010]. In the combination model the weights follow logistic auto-regressive processes, change over time and their dynamics are possible driven by the past forecasting performances of the predictive densities. For illustrative...

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Long-Run vs. Short-Run Perspectives on Consumer Scheduling : Evidence from a Revealed-Preference Experiment Among Peak-Hour Road Commuters

Peer, Stefanie - 2011

Theoretical and empirical studies of consumer scheduling behavior in commuting, and the associated valuation of time and schedule delays usually ignore that consumers have more exibility to adjust their schedule in the longer run than in the shorter run, implying that also these valuations may...

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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency : The Case of Job Satisfaction

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2011

We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...

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Economic Impacts of Cultural Diversity in the Netherlands : Productivity, Utility, and Sorting

Bakens, Jessie - 2012

This paper identifies the role of cultural diversity in explaining spatial disparities in wages and housing prices across Dutch cities, using unique individual panel data of home owners. We distinguish between the effects of interactions-based productivity, consumption amenities and sorting of...

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Modeling Migration Dynamics of Immigrants : The Case of the Netherlands

Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2008

Netherlands. We show how we can allow for both permanent and temporary migrants. Based on data from Statistics Netherlands we … analyze both the departure and the return from abroad for recent non-Dutch immigrants to The Netherlands. Results disclose … both models, for departure and returning, provides the probability that a specific migrant ends-up in The Netherlands. It …

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Deregulating Sunday Shop Policies

Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2006

Sunday shop opening is deregulated to the municipal level in the Netherlands. Despite positive effects on economic …

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