In this paper, we focus on two key characteristics of ROA’s forecasting approach of the labour market by occupation and education. These concern the use of the gap approach, and the substitution of education programmes within occupations. We show that the gap between supply and demand...

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...

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...

In this paper, we focus on two key characteristics of ROA’s forecasting approach of the labour market by occupation and education. These concern the use of the gap approach, and the substitution of education programmes within occupations. We show that the gap between supply and demand...

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...

In dit werkdocument wordt een overzicht gegeven van de methodiek die is gehanteerd bij het opstellen van de arbeidsmarktprognoses naar opleiding en beroep tot 2006 en de bijbehorende arbeidsmarktindicatoren ten behoeve van het rapport De arbeidsmarkt naar opleiding en beroep tot 2006. Dit...

1 Introduction1.1 BackgroundThe Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market generates everytwo years medium-term forecast of the labour market prospects of typesof education and occupations. The first forecast were generated in 1989,after a pilot in 1987, under a contract from the...

In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether international differences in the wage structure can be explained by differences in labor demand and supply in each country. The model explicitly takes into account the effects of...

Skill-biased technical change is usually interpreted in terms of the efficiency parameters of skilled and unskilled labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workers changes proportionally in all tasks. In contrast, we argue that technical changes also affect the curvature of...

In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether international differences in the wage structure can be explained by differences in labor demand and supply in each country. The model explicitly takes into account the effects of...