Worker Displacement

Displaced Workers , Unemployed and Vocational Education and Training, In: Peterson, Baker, McGaw (editors). International Encyclopedia of Education (2010)
 

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Learning to update your reservation wage while looking for a new job (with Gerard Antonius Pfann), Portuguese Economic Journal (2006)

We combine post-displacement survey data with information from personnel files of a displacing firm in...

 

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The role of specific and general human capital after displacement (with Gerard Antonius Pfann), Education Economics (2005)

Displaced workers experience significant and long-lasting wage losses. However, the average wage losses hide the...

 

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Heterogeneity among Displaced Workers (2003)
 

Personnel Economics

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Workforce Reorganization and the Worker (with Gerard A. Pfann), IZA DP (2011)

In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs...

 

Judgement and learning of jury judges (with Tim Barmby) (2011)

It has been observed that in sequential tournaments performing early can reduce an individual’s probability...

 

Works councils, collective bargaining and apprenticeship training (with Samuel Mühlemann, Mirjam Schütte, and Harald Pfeifer) (2011)

We investigate the effects of works councils on apprenticeship training. The German law attributes works...

 

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Wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003 (with Lex Borghans), The Structure of Wages - An International Comparison (2009)

In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in...

 

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Monkey bars and ladders: The importance of lateral and vertical job mobility in internal labor market careers (with Thomas Johannes Dohmen and Gerard Antonius Pfann), Journal of Population Economics (2004)

This paper compares results from the empirical literature on internal labor markets with outcomes from...

 

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Heterogeneity among Displaced Workers (2003)
 

Labor Market Forecasting

Regional Labour Market Forecasts in the Netherlands (with Frank Cörvers and Hans Heike), Regional Forecasting on Labour Markets (2008)
 

Forecasting in regional labour market monitoring, Monitoring of Regional Labour Markets in European States. Concepts, Experiences and Perspectives (2007)
 

International Trade

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The Environmental Porter Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and a Model of Timing of Adoption (with Thomas Ziesemer), Economics of Innovation and New Technology (2009)

The Porter Hypothesis postulates that the costs of compliance with environmental standards may be offset...

 

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Taxation and Technology Adoption: A Hotelling Approach (with Thomas Ziesemer), UNU-MERIT WP2006-009 (2006)

Environmental regulation and competitiveness are issues that seem to be at odds. However, the `Porter...

 

Other

Judgement and learning of jury judges (with Tim Barmby) (2011)

It has been observed that in sequential tournaments performing early can reduce an individual’s probability...

 

Labor, International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences (2008)
 

VET

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High and steady or low and rising? Vocational versus general education in life-cycle earnings (with Frank Cörvers, Hans Heijke, and Harald Pfeifer), ROA RM (2011)

In this paper, we compare experience-earnings profiles of employees with vocational and general education background...

 

Works councils, collective bargaining and apprenticeship training (with Samuel Mühlemann, Mirjam Schütte, and Harald Pfeifer) (2011)

We investigate the effects of works councils on apprenticeship training. The German law attributes works...

 

Occupations

Occupational sorting of school leavers: The role of economic preferences (with Didier Fouarge and Thomas J. Dohmen) (2011)

We measure economic preferences (risk attitudes and patience) of young individuals in a large representative...