This study formulates an easy-to-use two-step first-difference estimator for a panel data Tobit model. In the first step a bivariate Probit is estimated, using all observations. These estimates are used to construct correction terms that are added to the first-difference equation. This equation...

h3. Summary in English *Liberalisation and employment conditions - the evidence of public utilities, public transport and domiciliary health care in the Netherlands. *<br /> In this working paper, the political process of liberalisation of public service provision in the Netherlands is related to the...

In this article, we ask whether the principles of welfare redistribution have been altered in the era of ‘permanent austerity’; when pressures to dismantle (or at least cut down the costs) of social welfare institutions due to unfavourable economic and demographic developments have been...

h3. Leeswijzer Dit onderzoek rapporteert over het aanleggen van een gegevensbestand over immigranten, de resultaten van eerste analyses met dit bestand en hetgeen dit alles in algemene zin impliceert of kan impliceren voor het beleid. Het aanleggen van het databestand door koppeling van de...

This paper focuses on the effect of women’s individual working preferences on female employment patterns in the Netherlands, Germany and the UK for the period 1992-2002. Female patterns of labour market participation vary not only within these countries but between them as well. Is this...

The Dutch system of employment protection is often perceived as too strict for workers on permanent contracts, because of the large procedural inconveniences, difficulty of dismissal and high severance pay. It is suggested that the system of employment protection lowers labour market flexibility...

This Working Paper aims to present and discuss recent evidence on the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on wages, working conditions and industrial relations. It presents a. an overview of the available literature on the effects of FDI on wages, particularly in developed countries; b....

Dit Research Report bevat de resultaten van een onderzoeksproject naar ICT-gebruik in organisaties. NWO heeft dit onderzoek in het voorjaar van 2000 gefinancierd in het kader van haar Stimuleringsprogramma Maatschappij en de elektronische snelweg, hier verder afgekort als Stimuleringsprogramma...

High levels of unemployment, or high levels of social expenditures as well as the growing demand for a flexible labour force have given new impetus to the world-wide discussion on what model to use for an efficiently operating labour market and in particular on the role of institutions. Although...

It is common knowledge that indigenous men generally have a better position in the labour market than women and ethnic minorities. This study deals with the question why this is the case in certain sectors of the Dutch economy. The text discusses the labour market attainment for women and ethnic...