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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 saving behaviour of two person households : evidence from Dutch panel data

Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - 2000

As wives generally are younger than their husbands, and as they also have a higher life expectancy, wives generally have larger incentives to save for old age than their husbands. This paper analyses the household members' attitudes towards saving for old age, and the relation with the household...

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Female labour supply, flexibility of working hours, and job mobility in the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob - 1999

the Netherlands is an interesting country for the study of working hour flexibility, as part-time employment is fairly …

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Do mandatory pensions decrease household savings? : evidence for the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob - 2000

The Dutch mandatory pension system consists of two parts: a public pay-as-you-go part that provides a minimum income to all Dutch inhabitants over age 64; and an occupation-specific capital-funded part that provides supplementary retirement income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect...

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The predictive value of subjective labour supply data : a dynamic panel data model with measurement error

Euwals, Rob - 2001

This paper tests the predictive value of subjective labour supply data for adjustments in working hours over time. The idea is that if subjective labour supply data help to predict next year's working hours, such data must contain at least some information on individual labour supply...

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Explaining the growth of part-time employment : factors of supply and demand

Euwals, Rob (contributor); Hogerbrugge, Maurice (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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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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