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Unequal Chances on a Flexible Labor Market, the Case of the Netherlands

Bijwaard, Govert E.; Veenman, Justus - 2008

Labor markets in Western countries are becoming more and more flexible, thereby meeting the needs of employers. Yet the new flexibility also offers opportunities to workers, while at the same time bears the risk of long-term exclusion. This paper deals with unequal chances on the contemporary...

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The short-term economic effects of COVID-19 and risk-coping strategies of low-income households in Kenya: A rapid analysis using weekly financial household data

Janssens, Wendy; Pradhan, Menno; de Groot, Richard; … - 2020

This research assesses how low-income households in Western Kenya coped with the immediate economic consequences of the … was detected in Kenya to five weeks after. Our results suggest that income from work decreased with almost one third and …

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Risk Sharing in Labour Markets

Bigsten, Arne; Collier, Paul; Dercon, Stefan; … - 2003

Empirical work in labour economics has focused on rent sharing as an explanation for the observed correlation in cross-sections between wages and profitability. The alternative explanation of risk sharing between workers and employers has not been tested. Using a unique panel data set for four...

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Seeing the World with Different Eyes

Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - 2008

Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the … fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of … women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to women’s lower average levels of optimism and self-confidence, and higher …

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Education and Labor Market Activity of Women: An Age-Group Specific Empirical Analysis

Münch, Claudia; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2009

We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...

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Hormones and Social Preferences

Buser, Thomas - 2011

We examine whether social preferences are determined by hormones. We do this by investigating whether markers for the strength of prenatal testosterone exposure (finger length ratios) and current exposure to progesterone and oxytocin (the menstrual cycle) are correlated with choices in social...

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Unequal Chances on a Flexible Labor Market, The Case of the Netherlands

Bijwaard, Govert E.; Veenman, Justus - 2008

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Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions affect Job Finding Rates

van der Klaauw, Bas; van Ours, Jan C. - 2010

To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients were entitled to a reemployment bonus if they...

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Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance

Gautier, Pieter; Muller, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas; … - 2012

Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there areno spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that thisassumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers.Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...

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