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Endogenous local labour markets, regional aggregation and agglomeration economies

Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2019

administrative data, we define local labour markets (LLMs) based on the worker's commuting outcomes, gender and educational …

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The role of the housing market in workers' resilience to job displacement after firm bankruptcy

Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2017

substantial losses in employment and wage, an increase in the commuting distance and a decrease in the probability of moving home … pronounced, whereas the increase in the commuting distance diminishes. Also, we examine the role of workers' housing tenure in … owners are more rapidly re-employed and experience a smaller increase in the commuting distance, but experience also a higher …

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Fired and pregnant: gender differences in job flexibility outcomes after job loss

Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2020

We study whether women and men cope with job loss differently. We use 2006-2017 Dutch administrative monthly microdata and a quasi-experimental design involving job displacement because of firm bankruptcy. We find that displaced women are more likely than displaced men to take up a flexible job...

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The part-time wage penalty : a career perspective

Russo, Giovanni (contributor); … - 2005

Part-time employment has become an extremely popular work arrangement in the Netherlands because it renders employment …

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Time-bound opportunity costs of informal care : consequences for access to professional care, caregiver support, and labour supply estimates

Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Berg, Bernard van den - 2011

Patterns of informal care are documented throughout the day with Dutch time use diary data. The diary data enable us to identify a, so far overlooked, source of opportunity costs of informal care, i.e. the necessity to perform particular tasks of informal care at specific moments of the day....

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Multiple glass ceilings

Russo, Giovanni; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2011

ceiling is a pervasive phenomenon. In the Netherlands it affects about 88% of jobs, and 81% of Dutch women in employment work …

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The glass door : the gender composition of newly-hired workers across hierarchical job levels

Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Russo, Giovanni - 2010

This paper examines the gender composition of the flow of new hirees along the organizational hierarchy of jobs. We find that women have a reduced chance to be hired at higher hierarchical levels. We refer to this phenomenon as the "glass door". The glass door consists of an absolute and a...

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Do financial bonuses to employees reduce their absenteeism? : Outcome of a lottery

Hassink, Wolter H. J. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper investigates the effectiveness of a monthly lottery in reducing sick leave among workers in a manufacturing firm. Conditions of participation are not having reported sick in the previous three months and not having won the lottery earlier. It turns out that the lottery results in a...

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The Dutch labour market early on in the COVID-19 outbreak: regional coronavirus hotspots and the national lockdown

Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Kalb, Guyonne; Meekes, Jordy - 2020

We explore the impact of COVID-19 hotspots and regional lockdowns on the Dutch labour market. Using weekly administrative panel microdata for 50 per cent of Dutch employees until the end of March 2020, we study whether individual labour market outcomes, as measured by employment, working hours...

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