We investigate the effect of subsidies and levies on the behaviour of households on the Dutch housing market. Our primary interest lies in the effect on the tenure choice and on the levels of housing consumption for the whole population. The housing consumption level is not a priori defined. We...

This paper deals with differences between European countries in the use of long term elderly care. We analyse whether differences between countries in the use of health care hold, even if we take into account demographic and health differences. In the use of health care we distinguish between...

We analyze the participation and childcare decisions made by mothers in two-parent households with children aged 0-12 in the Netherlands, paying special attention to the role of attitudes regarding work and care. In a multinomial logit model we distinguish between not working, a small parttime...

A brief review of the aging of the Mexican population, the high labor force participation of elderly, and the lack of retirement pensions, is followed by a causal empirical analysis using a panel data set (Mexican Health and Aging Study, MHAS) of Mexicans aged 50 and more. We find that the labor...

We study the impact of active labour market policies (ALMPs) in the context of an applied general equilibrium model for the Dutch labour market. By using a calibrated general equilibrium model we try to narrow down the possible range of the net effect of various ALMPs. We consider the impact of...

This paper illustrates the propagation at the macro level of various types of shocks in a multifirm model representing a miniature economy which consists of firms of 4 different sizes. Our modelling exercise focuses on the interaction between internal and external labour flows. These flows are...