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The Urban Growth Potential of Second-Generation Migrant Entrepreneurs - A Sectoral Study on Amsterdam
Baycan-Levent, Tüzin; Nijkamp, Peter; Sahin, Mediha - 2009
in the Netherlands. The results of our study show that the second generation Turkish entrepreneurs in the Netherlands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325660
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HIV/AIDS, Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Choice
Lammers, Judith; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2010
with real monetary rewards conducted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220473
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Congestible Goods and Hoarding : A Test Based on Students' Use of University Computers
Kobus, Martijn; van Ommeren, Jos N.; Koster, Hans; … - 2013
costs later on. We test for hoarding of university computers by students. Endogeneity of congestion is acknowledged by using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014156584
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Same Work, Lower Grade? Student Ethnicity and Teachers' Subjective Assessments
van Ewijk, Reyn Joris - 2010
Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority … majority teachers grade minority and majority students differently for the same work. Using an experiment, I rule out the … expectations and unfavorable attitudes that both likely affect their behavior towards minority students, potentially inducing them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014188245
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Same Work, Lower Grade? Student Ethnicity and Teachers’ Subjective Assessments
van Ewijk, Reyn - 2010
Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority … majority teachers grade minority and majority students differently for the same work. Using an experiment, I rule out the … expectations and unfavorable attitudes that both likely affect their behavior towards minority students, potentially inducing them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325886
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324753
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114729
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118096
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108782