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Estimating the Effects of Recent Disability Reforms in the Netherlands
van Sonsbeek, Jan-Maarten; Gradus, Raymond - 2011
In the 1980s and 1990s, disability benefit rates in the Netherlands were among the highest in the world. However, since …
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Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance
Dahl, Gordon B.; Gielen, Anne C. - 2018
exploit a 1993 policy reform in the Netherlands which tightened disability insurance (DI) criteria for existing claimants, and …
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Premium Differentiation in the Unemployment Insurance System and the Demand for Labor
Alessie, Rob J.M.; Bloemen, Hans - 2000
firing cost. Following the political debate on the issue in the Netherlands, we assume that the introduction of experience …
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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance
Ejrnaes, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - 2008
We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured....
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117239
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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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