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Does Retirement Affect Cognitive Functioning?
Eric, Bonsang; Stéphane, Adam; Sergio, Perelman - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2010
This paper analyzes the effect of retirement on cognitive functioning using two large scale surveys. On the one hand the HRS, a longitudinal survey among individuals aged 50+ living in the United States, allows us to control for individual heterogeneity and endogeneity of the retirement decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615117
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Job Mobility and hours of work: the effect of Dutch legislation
Didier, Fouarge; Christine, Baaijens - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008629927
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The role of peers in estimating tenure-performance profiles: Evidence from personnel data
de, Grip Andries; Jan, Sauermann; Inge, Sieben - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2011
In this paper, we estimate tenure-performance profiles using unique panel data thatcontain detailed information on individual workers’performance. We find that 10per cent increase in tenure leads to an increase in performance of 5.5 per cent of astandard deviation. This translates to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364495
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Why do low-educated workers invest less in further training?
Didier, Fouarge; Trudie, Schils; de, Grip Andries - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2010
Several studies document the fact that low-educated workers participate less often infurther training than high-educated workers. The economic literature suggests thatthere is no significant difference in employer willingness to train low-educated workers,which leaves the question of why the low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646231
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An Economic Model of the Evolution of the Gender Performance Ratio in Individual Sports
Arnaud, Dupuy - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2010
This paper shows that gender world record ratio in four disciplines, i.e. marathon, triplejump, pole vault and 800 meters, follows a S-shape over time. It is argued that thispattern is initiated by a sudden drop in the social barrier for women to participate inthese disciplines. This drop in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677991
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The Crime Reducing Effect of Education
Stephen, Machin; Olivier, Marie; Sunčica, Vujić - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2010
In this paper, we study the crime reducing potential of education, presenting causalstatistical estimates based upon a … education canyield significant social benefits and can be a key policy tool in the drive to reduce crime. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764975
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Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the U.S.
Lex, Borghans; Bart, Golsteyn - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2011
Evidence about job mobility outside the U.S. is scarce and difficult to compare crossnationallybecause of non-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of collegegraduates in their first three years in the labor market, using unique uniform datacovering 11 European countries and Japan....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794468
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Flexible contracts and human capital investments
Didier, Fouarge; de, Grip Andries; Wendy, Smits; de, … - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2011
As suggested by human capital theory, workers with flexible contracts participate lessoften in training than those with permanent contracts. We find that this is merely dueto the fact that flexworkers receive less employer–funded training, a gap they can onlypartly compensate for by their own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399375
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Which skills protect graduates against a slack labour market?
Martin, Humburg; de, Grip Andries; der, Velden Rolf van - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2012
This paper explores the relationship between graduates’ skill levels and the risk ofovereducation and unemployment in 17 European countries. We distinguish betweenfield-specific and general skills and between two labour market segments, theoccupational domain of a particular field of study and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009415522
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The effects of higher education programme characteristics on allocation and performance of the graduates: a European view
Hans, Heijke; Christoph, Meng - Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the … - 2006
transition from education to the labour market. Using a unique data set on the labour market situation of graduates in nine … European countries, we investigate the significance of five characteristics of the higher education programmes: (1) The … occupations.First, our results reveal in particular the importance of the competence orientation of the education programme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005297443