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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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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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On the Distribution of Calls in a Wireless Network driven by Fluid Traffic
Ule, Aljaz; Boucherie, Richard J. - 2000
This note develops a modelling approach for wireless networks driven byfluid traffic models. Introducing traffic sets that follow movement ofsubscribers, the wireless network with time-varying rates is transformedinto a stationary network at these traffic sets, which yields that thedistribution...
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Urban Planning and Information and Communication Technology: Ideas and Facts
Cohen, Galit; van Geenhuizen, Marina; Nijkamp, Peter - 2001
In our modern network world, ICT acts as a connecting and integratingmechanism. Information (data, knowledge)has become a core constellation in an open economy. The avalanche ofinformation supply however, has not keptpace with the use of information by decision-making bodies.Especially in the...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108782
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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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