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Open AccessHow Retirement Affects Mental Health, Cognitive Skills and Mortality; An Overview of Recent Empirical Evidence
Retiring is an individual labor market transition that affects the personal life of the workers involved and sometimes the life of their partners. This paper presents an overview of recent studies on the effec...
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Editorial Introduction—How Sports Can Help Economics
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Open AccessSeasonal Home Advantage in English Professional Football; 1974–2018
We study seasonal home advantage in English professional football over the period 1974 to 2018. We distinguish between absolute home advantage, enjoyed equally by all teams in a division, and relative home adv...
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Open AccessThe joy of lottery play: evidence from a field experiment
Buying lottery tickets is not a rational investment from a financial point of view. Yet, the majority of people participate at least once a year in a lottery. We conducted a field experiment to increase unders...
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Mental Health Effects of Retirement
We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heteroge...
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Open AccessA Note on Artificial Pitches and Home Advantage in Dutch Professional Football
In professional football there is an advantage of playing at home. In the Netherlands, in the Eredivisie, the top tier of professional football the majority of teams play their home matches on natural grass but t...
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Open AccessU.S. Immigration Reform and the Migration Dynamics of Mexican Males
The 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was directed at tackling the problem of growing unauthorized migration through legalization of unauthorized immigrants, increasing border security and sanc...
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Open AccessEffectiveness of In-Season Manager Changes in English Premier League Football
We analyze the performance effects of in-season manager changes in English Premier League football during the seasons 2000/2001–2014/2015. We find that some managerial changes are successful, while others are ...
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Seek and Ye Shall Find: How Search Requirements Affect Job Finding Rates of Older Workers
Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for many years exempted from the requirement to actively search for a job after they reached the age of 57.5. We study how this exemption affected the ...
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Dutch Economists Top 40
There is a tradition in the Netherlands to publish an annual ranking of economic and business researchers working in Dutch universities. The most recent such ranking, published in 2013, emphasizes research qua...
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Unemployment of Non-Western Immigrants in the Great Recession
This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 200...
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When is the Price Cost Margin a Safe Way to Measure Changes in Competition?
The price cost margin (PCM) is a popular way to measure competition. Although we know that this measure is not without problems, we actually do not know how often and under which conditions a change in PCM poi...
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Open AccessWhy is There a Spike in the Job Finding Rate at Benefit Exhaustion?
Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a “spike” in the job finding rate shortly before benefits are exhausted. Current theories explain this spike from workers’ behavior. ...
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Open AccessAge, Wage and Productivity in Dutch Manufacturing
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e...
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Open AccessHow a Reduction of Standard Working Hours Affects Employment Dynamics
December 1, 1996 a new law was implemented in Portugal to gradually reduce the standard workweek from 44 to 40 h. We study how this mandatory reduction affected employment through job creation and job destruct...
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Open AccessWill You Still Need Me: When I’m 64?
For various reasons the relationship between age and productivity is a matter of policy concern. I present new empirical research showing how productivity is affected by age. I study age effects at the individ...
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Open AccessBringing Unemployed Back to Work: Effective Active Labor Market Policies
We present a theoretical analysis of different types of active labor market policies in the context of a search-matching model. We find that labor market training is effective in bringing down unemployment whi...
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Open AccessRanking Dutch Economists
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On the Economics of Illicit Drugs
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From parent to child: early labor market experiences of second-generation immigrants in the netherlands
This paper is on the early labor market experiences of second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands. With respect to employment rates we find that there are some differences across ethnic groups. However, c...