India’s comparative advantage in health care is due to a large resource pool and competence in English. Indian migration to the US, UK or Australia has been widely studied, but not much attention has been given to the Scandinavian countries. This paper fills the gap by analyzing recent trends...

This article examines how the recent global recession, together with the general flexibilization of labour markets, is affecting young people. We examine different forms of social exclusion, including unemployment, temporary employment contracts and periods of inactivity, as well as the...

This paper uses longitudinal test data to analyze the relation between retirement and cognitive development. Controlling for individual fixed effects and lagged cognition, we find that retirees face greater declines in information processing speed than those who remain employed. However,...

Using a dataset for a demographically representative sample of the Dutch population, containing a revealed preference risk attitude measure, as well as very detailed information about participants’ religious background, we study three issues raised in previous literature. First, we find strong...

We analyze the determinants of reading literacy, mathematical skills and science skills of young immigrant children in the Netherlands. We find that these are a ffected by age at immigration and whether or not one of the parents is native Dutch

The purposes of this study are to examine differences in prices that safari sunset flower growers from Israel receive on the Dutch flower bursa, suggest factors that influence such differences, and examine strength and significance of each factor. We show that price differences between growers...

Nutrition knowledge is a prerequisite for processing nutrition-related information when making food choices. Insight into determinants of nutrition knowledge is important both for designing measures aimed at increasing levels of nutrition knowledge and for food industry attempting to position...

Interest groups differ in the choice of strategy that they use to influence public policy. Some mainly try to gain access, that is, have direct contacts with decision-makers, whereas others tend to “go public”, that is, launch campaigns that aim to mobilize the broader public. We argue that...

Though improvisation has emerged as a crucial organizational competence, research wrestles with a key question – how can organizations benefit from improvisation? To advance research, I build a richer conceptualization of the role of knowledge resources – market information sources and...

This paper examines a model of competition between two types of health insurers: Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and “Conventional Insurers." MCOs vertically integrate health care providers and pay them at a competitive price, while conventional insurers work as indemnity plans and pay the...