leicht variierenden Regeln und Mustern. Natürlich sind persönliche und fachliche Eignung sowie das berühmte Quäntchen Glück auch hier die ausschlaggebenden Faktoren für eine erfolgreiche Arbeits-platzsuche. Als erste Visitenkarte Ihres Könnens hält ein Arbeitgeber jedoch Ihre...

This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime is so heterogeneous across space. By employing current and historical data for Dutch municipalities and by providing novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link...

This website of the Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) provides monetary and financial statistics for the Netherlands.

chorus of the tragedy which plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that,despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of perfect competition, the global fields ofthe dysfunctional market system have mushroomed in what we call Warrant Economics forthe Free-Market...

We address the long standing question of whether production factors are paid their marginalproducts. We propose a new approach that circumvents the need to specify productionfunctions and to compare marginal products to factor payments. Our approach is based on asimple equation that directly...

This paper explores changes in the relationship betweenrace, income, and criminal victimization over time. Interestin this question is motivated by the widening incomedistribution of the last two decades. Between 1980 and1994, the share of income earned by the top 5 percentof American families...

A century ago, Thorstein Veblen introduced socially contingent con-sumption into the economic literature. This paper complements the scarceempirical literature by testing his conjecture on South African householddata and nds that Black and Coloured households spend relatively moreon visible...

Acemoglu, Johnson, & Robinson (2002) have claimed that the world incomedistribution underwent a "Reversal of Fortune" from 1500 to the present, wherebyformerly rich countries in what is now the developing world became poor whilepoor ones grew rich. We question their analysis with regard to both...

Specific functional forms are often used in economic models of distributions;goodness-of-fit measures are used to assess whether a functional form is appropriatein the light of real-world data. Standard approaches use a distance criterion based onthe EDF, an aggregation of differences in...

This article is a comparative analysis of the sources of income inequalityin four countries, namely Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the UnitedKingdom. It relies upon decompositions of inequality measures bypopulation groups and income sources (except for Japan because of datalimitations)....