We relate risk attitudes and patience of young graduates from high-school, collegeand university, measured around the time that they start their labor market career in a large representative survey, to the riskiness and timing of earnings in the occupations they choose to work in. We find a...

This paper uncovers conspicuous work as a new form of status seeking that can explain social interactions in labour supply. We analyse how peer working time relates to both labour supply and happiness for Dutch male workers. Using a unique measure of peer weekly working time, we find that mens...

In 2002 is in opdracht van de Stichting A+O een start gemaakt met de opzet van eenArbeidsmarktmonitor voor de Nederlandse Metalektro. Deze monitor geeft inzicht inde actuele ontwikkelingen op de arbeidsmarkt en de toekomstige ontwikkelingen oppersoneels- en arbeidsmarktgebied in de...

Tracking students in secondary school could increase the effect of parental background PB on student performance, especially if parents can influence the track choice. This influence can be either direct or indirect, and either purposefully or not. Little is known about these indirect effects of...

We estimate the impact of spatial mobility on job match quality by using a data set of recent Dutch university and college graduates We find positive wage returns related to spatial mobility. However, after controlling for the self-selection of migrants with an IV approach, this effect is no...

This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance.Identification comes from an exceptional policy introduced in the city of Maastrichtwhich discriminated legal access based on individuals nationality. We apply a difference in-difference approach using administrative...

This article investigates whether New Ways of Working NWW are related to employee work engagement in the Netherlands. We test our hypotheses using a sample of 656 employees from 14 industry sectors and 12 occupational fields. Our study reveals that three facets of NWW positively affect work...

Dit werkdocument geeft de methodiek weer die gevolgd is bij het samenstellen van de arbeidsmarktinformatie over 21 bedrijfssectoren, 127 beroepsgroepen en 102 opleidingstypen, welke opgenomen is in het ArbeidsmarktInformatieSysteem van het ROA en gebruikt in het rapport De arbeidsmarkt naar...

This paper analyses the relationship between a universitys expenditure per student and its position in international university rankings. We take into account other factors that are expected to play a role, such as university mission, size, and productive inefficiency. We formalise these...

Dit rapport is in de eerste plaats een handleiding voor de Vlaamse Inspectie Werk en Sociale Economie IWSE teneinde een beeld te geven van de verschillende strategien om een kwantitatieve impactstudie uit te voeren. Het rapport overloopt enkele statistische begrippen, en het bevat een overzicht...