In dit rapport brengen wij het formele en informele leren en de kennisontwikkeling in Nederland in kaart aan de hand van vier peilingen van de ROA Levenslang Leren Enqute voor de jaren 2004, 2007, 2010 en 2013. Aangezien het monitorgedeelte van de vragenlijst gedurende deze jaren ongewijzigd is...

In this paper, we develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers more productive by increasing their ability to learn from work experience, rather than providing skills that directly increase productivity. This assumption is...

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...

Wat is de kwaliteit van de gediplomeerde schoolverlaters en wat gaan ze na hun opleiding doen?Hoe is de aansluiting met het vervolgonderwijs? Als ze naar de arbeidsmarkt gaan, hoe snelkrijgen ze dan werk? En sluit dat werk dan ook aan op de gevolgde opleiding? Hoe tevreden zijnwerkende...

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...