This article addresses the growing articulation between migration and security in the European Union. Risk politicization strategies are developed as a way of questioning the consequences of framing migration as a security problem. My general research questions are: i) is migration being...

After graduation many students start working in sectors not related to their field of study or participate in training targeted at work in other sectors. In this article, we look at mobility immediately after graduation from the perspective that educational choices have been made when these...

This paper investigates the relationship between time preferences and lifetime social and economic behavior. We use a Swedish longitudinal dataset that links information from a large survey on children’s time preferences at age 13 to administrative registers spanning over four decades. Our...

The rapid increase of the female participation rate in the Netherlands gives rise to the hypothesis that the willingness of Dutch women to be employed grew strongly. We predict the number of hours women are willing to work by using the estimated parameters from a multistage least squares Heckit...

This article analyzes whether defaults affect the choice for courses followed at work. In addition, we analyze whether the size of the default effect varies with employees’ personality and skill-deficiencies. We perform an experiment in which workers are hypothetically offered three courses...

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations in preference parameters among persons, and in particular across genders,...

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations in preference parameters among persons, and in particular across genders,...

Dit onderzoek is een studie over de methodiek van de prognoses van de instroom op de arbeidsmarkt. Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd in het kader van Project Onderwijs-Arbeidsmarkt. Behalve de auteurs heeft ook Rolf van der Velden van het ROA bijgedragen aan de totstandkoming van het voorliggende...

The rapid increase of the female participation rate in the Netherlands gives rise to the hypothesis that the willingness of Dutch women to be employed grew strongly. We predict the number of hours women are willing to work by using the estimated parameters from a multistage least squares Heckit...

This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined. These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentives in situations. In general, measures...