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The Economic Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market of Host Countries - Meta-Analytic Evidence

Longhi, Simonetta - 2011

The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages and employment in host countries are quantitatively small but vary widely. We use meta-regression analysis to show how the estimates vary with definitions of the labor market,...

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Labor Market Prospects, Search Intensity and the Transition from College to Work

van der Klaauw, Bas; van Vuuren, Aico; Berkhout, Peter - 2004

model using a unique data set of individuals who completed undergraduate education in the Netherlands between 1995 and 2001 …

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Starting Wages Respond To Employer's Risk

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; van Ophem, Hans - 2009

Firms hiring fresh graduates face uncertainty on the future productivity of workers. Theory suggests that starting wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that...

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Do Services differ from Manufacturing? The Post-Entry Performance of Firms in Dutch Services

Audretsch, D.B.; Klomp, Luuk; Thurik, A.R. - 1998

A large literature has emerged focusing on the post-entry performance of firms and, in particular, on thelinks between firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that aresufficiently consistent as to constitute Stylized Facts, virtually all of these...

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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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