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Cannabis Use and its Effects on Health, Education and Labor Market Success

van Ours, Jan; Williams, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2014

cannabis use on health, education and labor market success. We conclude<br/>that there do not appear to be serious harmful …

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The Gender Wage Gap by Education in Italy

Mussida, C.; Picchio, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

Abstract: This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994–2001 ECHP data. We estimate wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection separately for highly and low educated men and women. Then, we decompose the gender wage gap...

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Using Employer Hiring Behavior to Test the Educational Signaling Hypothesis

van Ours, Jan; Albrecht, J.W. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

This paper presents a test of the educational signaling hypothesis.If employers use education as a signal in the hiring … process, they will rely more on education when less is otherwise known about applicants.We nd that employers are more likely … education is used as a signal in the hiring process. …

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Estimating the Economic Return to Schooling on the Basis of Panel Data

Kalwij, A.S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1996

This paper is concerned with estimating the economic return to schooling of men in the Netherlands.We adopt an IV approach to estimate a panel data model with random individual effects.We exploit the fact that older individuals have relatively less schooling compared to younger individuals to...

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Does work experience help to become a medical specialist?

van Ours, Jan; van den Berg, G.; Holm, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

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The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands

van Ours, Jan; Veenman, J.M.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

Since the mid-1960's the Netherlands has had an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and Morocco and immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam.Immigrants have a weak labor market position, which is related to their educational level and language...

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Part-Time Work, School Success and School Leaving

van soest, arthur; Dustmann, C.; Rajah, N. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1996

CJEL Classifications: 35; I20; J24;

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Organizing Education by Drawing on Organizational Studies

Romme, A.G.L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002

-oriented research approach is used in order to develop grounded design principles for organizing education.By drawing on the literature … about organizational design and learning, several preliminary design ideas for organizing undergraduate education are … thesis projects.The design principles grounded in these two cases are, in sum: designing education as an authentic …

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Redistribution and Education Subsidies are Siamese Twins

Bovenberg, A.L.Bovenberg; Jacobs, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

optimal level of education subsidies along with the optimal progressive schedule of the labor income tax and optimal capital … income taxes.Subsidies on education ensure efficiency in human capital accumulation, while taxes on skilled labor help to … redistribute income towards the less able.We thus provide a rationale for the widely observed presence of education subsidies …

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The missing link in budget models of nonprofit institutions : Two practical Dutch applications

Verheyen, P.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1995

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