http://repub.eur.nl/res/aut/265/ List of Publications en http://repub.eur.nl/static-eur/img/logo.png http://repub.eur.nl http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/39884/ 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Sommige werkenden worden minder gelukkig als ze hun baan verliezen terwijl anderen in dat geval zelfs gelukkiger worden. Gelukkige werklozen hebben geen prikkel om snel op zoek te gaan naar een baan. Ongelukkige werklozen zeggen wel harder te zoeken maar blijken niet korter werkloos. Het lijkt erop dat werklozen – ongelukkig of niet – een steuntje in de rug nodig hebben om weer snel aan de slag te gaan. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/38237/ 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to estimate the causal effect of interethnic marriages on the educational attainment of children from such marriages. We find that children from Moluccan fathers and native mothers have a higher educational attainment than children from ethnic homogeneous Moluccan couples or children from a Moluccan mother and a native father. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/7800/ 1997-06-21T00:00:00Z The system of unemployment benefits and subsistence benefits in Slovakia has potentially large disincentive effects with respect to the outflow from unemployment to a job. Especially low educated unemployed and unemployed with young children are often faced with replacement ratios which are close to 100%. We investigate whether the potential effects have an actual meaning. Using data from subsequent labour force surveys we analyse the (hazard) rates at which unemployed workers find jobs. We find no evidence of disincentive effects of the Slovak unemployment system. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/7803/ 1997-04-24T00:00:00Z In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial approach of previous studies this paper takes all elements of unemployment dynamics simultaneously into account. We find that cyclical fluctuations in unemployment are driven by variations in the incidence, individual exit probabilities and the composition of the inflow into unemployment. We also find negative duration dependence of the unemployment exit rate which can be attributed to employers ranking workers according to the length of their unemployment spell.