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Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
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In dit werkdocument wordt verslag gedaan van een verkennend onderzoek naar de mogelijkheden van het gebruik van administratieve data voor het Project Onderwijs-Arbeidsmarkt. Een aantal onderdelen van het onderzoek zijn gepubliceerd in het rapport De arbeidsmarkt naar opleiding en beroep tot 2012...
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In dit werkdocument wordt verslag gedaan van een verkennend onderzoek naar de mogelijkheden van het gebruik van administratieve data voor het Project Onderwijs-Arbeidsmarkt. Een aantal onderdelen van het onderzoek zijn gepubliceerd in het rapport De arbeidsmarkt naar opleiding en beroep tot 2012...
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Do people choose courses to reduce work-related skill-deficiencies, and do theychoose courses deliberately? We measure the skill-deficiency for six skills andperform an experiment in which workers are offered three courses related tothese skills. They may exchange these courses for other...
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This paper explores the interface between personality psychology andeconomics. We examine the predictive power of personality and the stability ofpersonality traits over the life cycle. We develop simple analytical frameworksfor interpreting the evidence in personality psychology and suggest...
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In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main actors. The analyses are based on administrative sources allowing for comparisons between and within...
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their friends, we revisit the importance of geographical proximity in shaping education outcomes. Our findings reveal no …
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This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguityaversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preferenceparameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations in preferenceparameters among persons, and in particular across genders,...
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AbstractThis paper examines whether noncognitive skills — measures both by personality traits andeconomic preference parameters — influence cognitive tests performance. The basic idea isthat noncognitive skills might affect the effort people put into a test to obtain good results. We...
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points, while those who switch on average take 0.3 months additional education. …
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