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October 28, 2020

Coping with the COVID-19 labor market crisis: Views from the Netherlands

Interview with Egbert Jongen and Paul Verstraten

  • COVID-19
  • Netherlands
  • Egbert Jongen
  • Paul Verstraten
Research

April 12, 2018

Is dependency on disability insurance benefits transmitted from parents to children?

Disability benefits provide an essential safety net for many people of working age whose health prevents them from engaging in […]

  • benefit recipiency
  • children
  • disability insurance
  • family
  • insurance
  • intergenerational
  • labor market policy
  • Netherlands
  • parents
  • social assistance
  • social policy
  • Anne C. Gielen
  • Gordon B. Dahl
Research

October 24, 2017

Teenage daughters as a risk factor for divorce

Sullen exchanges, inexplicable silences and broken curfews can be part of life for parents of teenagers, but could this period […]

  • boys
  • children
  • divorce
  • family
  • gender roles
  • girls
  • marriage
  • Netherlands
  • parents
  • Amar Hamoudi
  • David C. Ribar
  • Elizabeth O. Ananat
  • Enrico Moretti
  • Francine D. Blau
  • Gordon B. Dahl
  • Guy Michaels
  • H. Corman
  • Jan Kabátek
  • Jason Cook
  • Jenna Nobles
  • K. Noonan
  • Lawrence M. Kahn
  • Miriam Larson-Koester
  • NE Reichman
  • Peter Brummund
  • Shelly Lundberg
Research

October 9, 2017

How tax policy can promote lifelong learning

In the face of demographic and technological change, people will have to work longer and are more likely to switch […]

  • education
  • human capital
  • income
  • lifelong learning
  • Netherlands
  • tax deductions
  • tax incentives
  • tax policy
  • training
  • Egbert L. W. Jongen
  • Karen van der Wiel
  • Wiljan Van den Berge
Research

November 11, 2016

What a difference a day makes

Family stability is a prerequisite for a number of social outcomes that policy makers care about, not the least being […]

  • date
  • divorce
  • family
  • marriage
  • Netherlands
  • partnership
  • wedding
  • David C. Ribar
  • Jan Kabátek
Research

August 15, 2016

Backlash against Muslim immigrants after terrorist attacks harms integration and the economy

The recent rise in the number and intensity of fundamentalist Islamic terrorist attacks occurring in several Western cities could, as […]

  • attitudes
  • high-skilled
  • integration
  • Islam
  • migration
  • Muslim
  • Netherlands
  • segregation
  • terrorism
  • Ahmed Elsayed
  • Andries de Grip
Research

December 3, 2015

Happy birthday, you’re fired! Effects of the age-dependent minimum wage in the Netherlands

The effects of the minimum wage on youth employment flows are at the focal point of the current policy debate […]

  • age-dependent
  • birthday
  • employment spell
  • fired
  • minimum wage
  • Netherlands
  • productivity
  • termination
  • youth
  • Jan Kabátek
Research

November 17, 2015

Demanding occupations and the retirement age

With populations aging in across most developed countries, governments are under pressure to reform pension schemes to guarantee their fiscal […]

  • early retirement
  • Netherlands
  • pension
  • pension schemes
  • physically demanding jobs
  • population aging
  • retirement
  • statutory retirement age
  • Arthur van Soest
  • Mauro Mastrogiacomo
  • Niels Vermeer
Research

July 27, 2015

Home births lead to higher infant mortality: Dutch mothers in poorer areas at risk

The safety of home births for low-risk women is a hotly debated topic in the Western world. In this context, […]

  • babies
  • home birth
  • hospital
  • infant mortality
  • medical treatments
  • mother
  • Netherlands
  • risks
  • Mircea Trandafir
  • N. Meltem Daysal
  • Reyn van Ewijk
Research

September 17, 2014

Flexible working hours improve job satisfaction

Temporal and locational flexibility (TLF) is an important element in current policy debates about working conditions and the combination of […]

  • family
  • flexibility
  • job satisfaction
  • Netherlands
  • part-time work
  • working conditions
  • working hours
  • Daniel Possenriede
  • Janneke Plantenga
Research

July 11, 2014

Having a successful start-up: How your team should be composed

Entrepreneurship is an important source of innovation and technological change. And as standard macro theory suggests, these are main drivers […]

  • children
  • entrepreneurship
  • field experiment
  • generalist
  • Netherlands
  • school
  • skill
  • specialist
  • start-ups
  • team
  • Laura Rosendahl Huber
  • Mirjam C. van Praag
  • Randolph Sloof
Research

June 23, 2014

Encouraging single mothers to work – evidence from the Netherlands

Welfare benefits are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the poor need them to survive, on the other hand […]

  • benefit
  • child
  • labor market entry
  • labor market policy
  • mother
  • natural experiment
  • Netherlands
  • welfare
  • Jan C. van Ours
  • Marike Knoef
Research

January 10, 2014

More midwives, fewer doctors: a safe way to cut medical costs?

Medical expenditures increased tremendously over the last few decades throughout the entire developed world. This is especially true for spending […]

  • cost savings
  • doctors
  • health economic
  • medical costs
  • midwives
  • Netherlands
  • pregnancy
  • Mircea Trandafir
  • N. Meltem Daysal
  • Reyn van Ewijk
Research

October 25, 2013

Relative bonus payment schemes do not increase performance

Many firms run employee-of-the-month or job promotion contests. Stock brokers get additional money if they beat the index. Bonus payment […]

  • bonus payment
  • effort
  • field experiment
  • Netherlands
  • performance
  • work incentives
  • Arjan Non
  • Josse Delfgaauw
  • Robert Dur
  • Willem Verbeke
Research

September 11, 2013

High testosterone, high wages?

Does the level of testosterone, which is associated with more aggressive and competitive behavior, explain why men earn more than […]

  • earnings
  • gender
  • gender wage gap
  • inequality
  • natural experiment
  • Netherlands
  • twins
  • Anne C. Gielen
  • Caitlin Knowles Myers
  • Jessica Holmes
Research

September 6, 2013

Early retirement makes men live longer

Does early retirement affect how long people live? In a new IZA Discussion Paper, Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel and Jochem […]

  • early retirement
  • longevity
  • mortality
  • Netherlands
  • pension funds
  • retirement
  • retirement age
  • Hans Bloemen
  • Jochem Zweerink
  • Stefan Hochguertel
Research

June 24, 2013

Do people discriminate others or favor their ownkind?

Discrimination is omnipresent in today’s labor markets: women receive lower wages, foreigner are less likely to be hired. While the […]

  • class room
  • discrimination
  • favoritism
  • field experiment
  • grading
  • labor market
  • Maastricht University
  • Netherlands
  • university
  • Daniel S. Hamermesh
  • Jan Feld
  • Nicolas Salamanca
Research

May 31, 2013

Seek and ye shall find: how search requirements affect job finding rates of older workers

Older workers often have difficulties to find a new job after becoming unemployment. While this problem is often attributed to […]

  • elderly
  • job finding
  • job search
  • Netherlands
  • older workers
  • unemployment
  • unemployment insurance
  • Jan C. van Ours
  • Patrick Hullegie

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