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...

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...

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...

This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology.The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadlydefined. These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentivesin situations. In general, measures are...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

After graduation many students start working in sectors not related to their field of study or participate in training targeted at work in other sectors. In this paper, we look at mobility immediately after graduation from the perspective that educational choices have been made when these pupils...

A meta-analysis is used to study the average wage effects of on-the-job training. This study shows that the average reported wage effect of on-the-job training, corrected for publication bias, is 2.6 per cent per course. The analyses reveal a substantial heterogeneity between training courses,...