International student mobility has rapidly increased in the past three decades the number of students enrolled in tertiary education outside of their country of citizenship was 0.8 million in 1975, but it increased to 4.3 million in 2011 OECD, 2013.1 This rapid increase can be explained by...

At the beginning of the nineteen-eighties, the Dutch economy was in a poor state.Successive oil crises had hit the industrial sector particularly hard. This promptedgovernment to set up an authoritative committee, led by former Shell presidentWagner. The committee was asked to advise on the...

De weergave van de methodiek in dit werkdocument heeft betrekking op het samenstellen van de arbeidsmarktinformatie over 32 bedrijfssectoren, 127 beroepsgroepen en 102 opleidingstypen, welke is gebruikt in het rapport De arbeidsmarkt naar opleiding en beroep tot 2014. Dit rapport is in november...

Dit rapport onderzoekt de aansluitingsproblematiek op de regionale arbeidsmarkt voor 40 verschillende COROP gebieden in Nederland in 2008 voor het MBO. Zoals verwacht, vinden we een significant negatief verband tussen de vacaturegraad (V) en het werkloosheidspercentage (U). Daarnaast vinden we...

This report summarises some of the latest results from the Cedefop Skillsnet project on Forecasting skill supply and demand in Europe to 2022. This is part of an ongoing Framework Agreement which extends over 4 years. This report documents work carried out in Year 2 2014. The researchers are...

The model developed in this paper explains differences in the division of labour across firmsas a result of computer technology adoption. We find that changes in the division of labourcan result both from reduced production time and from improved communicationpossibilities. The first shifts the...

This article explores the total (measured and unmeasured) effect of education on different socio-economic outcomes. The analysis shows that the usual regression models typically underestimate the effects of education. The effects of education are decomposed into three sources of variation:...

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguityaversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preferenceparameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations in preferenceparameters among persons, and in particular across genders,...

In most industrialised countries, one may observe the tendency for higher educated people to be employed in jobs that used to be occupied by lower skilled people. Although this tendency appears to be a rather general phenomenon, economic literature provides no clear clue about the causes of this...

The ability to process new information and to compute conditional probabilities iscrucial for making appropriate decisions under uncertainty. In this paper, weinvestigate the capability of inferring conditional probabilities in a representativesample of the German population. Our results show...