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Male and female labour force participation: the role of dynamic adjustments to changes in labour demand, government policies and autonomous trends

Maarten, Vendrik; Frank, Cörvers - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2009

This study investigates the extent and speed of dynamic adjustment of labour supply to changes in labour demand, government policies and autonomous trends. We estimate error-correction models (ECMs) for male and female participation rates in the Netherlands between 1969 and 2004. The results...

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Vocational Versus Communicative Competencies as Predictors of Job Satisfaction

de, Grip Andries; Inge, Sieben; Fred, Stevens - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2006

We analyzed the effects of workers’ competencies and job content on their overall, intrinsic, and extrinsic job satisfaction. We focused on pharmacy assistants, an occupational group that operates at the interface of professional health and commercial activities. This means that pharmacy...

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Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants and Behavioral Consequences

Thomas, Dohmen; Armin, Falk; David, Huffman; Uwe, Sunde; … - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2009

This paper studies risk attitudes using a large representative survey and a complementaryexperiment conducted with a representative subject pool in subjects’ homes. Using aquestion asking people about their willingness to take risks “in general”, we find thatgender, age, height, and...

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Occupation Specific or Generic Skills? Conflicting Interests of Firms and Apprentices

W, Smits - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2002

Firms and apprentices have conflicting interests with respect to the content of training programmes. On the basis of a model for the investment decision in occupation-specific and generic training, I will show that, in the case of imperfect competition, firms are not only unwilling to pay for...

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Training and early Retirement

Raymond, Montizaan; Frank, Coervers; de, Grip Andries - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2007

In this paper we analyze how retirement behavior is affected by a worker’s firm-specific or general training history. Using US data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men and controlling for the effects of technological change and workers’ retirement preferences, we find that...

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Job Mobility and hours of work: the effect of Dutch legislation

Didier, Fouarge; Christine, Baaijens - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2009

Previous research has pointed to the existence of hours constraints on the labour market: not all employees’ preferences with respect to the length of the working week seem to be fulfilled, and changes in the number of working hours often coincide with job mobility. In this paper, we test...

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Educational presorting as a cause of occupational segregation

Borghans L.; Groot L. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 1999

educational segregation. This occurs when men with a ''male type'' of education and women with a ''female type'' of education come …

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The role of geographic mobility in reducing education-job mismatches in the Netherlands

Hensen Maud M.; de, Vries M. Robert; Frank, Cörvers - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2009

expected at the beginning of the career. For thispurpose we use data on secondary and higher vocational education graduates in … theperiod 1996–2001. We show that graduates who are mobile have higher probabilityof fi nding jobs at the acquired education ….Th is suggests that mobility is sought to prevent not only having to take a job belowthe acquired education level, but also …

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Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition

Andreas, Ammermüller; Hans, Heijke; Ludger, Wöszmann - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2003

data for lower secondary education. The results show substantial effects of student background on educational performance …

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Measuring Competences in School-leaver Surveys

van, Loo J.; Semeijn J. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2001

labour market performance is no longer dependent on just the individual’s initial education, since todays labour market …

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