recent research memoranda

Recent research memoranda

In order to facilitate the dissemination of fundamental research of ROA staff members to the (scientific) public, ROA has created a Research Memoranda series. The ROA Research Memoranda series contains research papers written by members of ROA on topics pertaining to Education and the Labour Market, that are intended for subsequent peer-reviewed publication.

> 2012	> 2010	> 2008
> 2011	> 2009

2012

ROA-RM-2012/6	That's what friends are for? The impact of peer characteristics on early school-leaving Tanja Traag, Miranda Jessica Lubbers, Rolf van der Velden
ROA-RM-2012/5	The effects of cognitive and non-cognitive skills on early school-leaving Tanja Traag en Rolf van der Velden
ROA-RM-2012/4	Do migrant girls always perform better? Differences between the reading and math scores of 15-year-old daughters and sons of migrants in PISA 2009 and variations by region of origin and country of destination Nils Kornder and Jaap Dronkers
ROA-RM-2012/3	Retirement and cognitive development: are the retired really inactive? Andries de Grip, Arnaud Dupuy, Jelle Jolles and Martin van Boxtel
ROA-RM-2012/2	Education, cognitive skills and earnings of males and females Charlotte Büchner, Wendy Smits and Rolf van der Velden
ROA-RM-2012/1	Which skills protect graduates against a slack labour market? Martin Humburg, Andries de Grip and Rolf van der Velden

2011

ROA-RM-2011/14	The role of peers in estimating tenure-performance profiles: Evidence from personnel data Andries de Grip, Jan Sauermann, Inge Sieben
ROA-RM-2011/13	Flexible contracts and human capital investments Didier Fouarge, Andries de Grip, Wendy Smits, Robert de Vries
ROA-RM-2011/12	Measuring the (income) effect of disability insurance generosity on labour market participation Olivier Marie, Judit Vall Castello
ROA-RM-2011/11	Wage effects of on-the-job training Carla Haelermans, Lex Borghans
ROA-RM-2011/10	Why do recent graduates enter into flexible jobs? Daniëlle Bertrand-Cloodt, Frank Cörvers, Ben Kriechel, Jesper van Thor
ROA-RM-2011/9	The effects of training on own and co-worker productivity: evidence from a field experiment Andries de Grip, Jan Sauermann
ROA-RM-2011/8	A Test for the Convexity of Human Well-Being over the Life Cycle: Longitudinal Evidence from a 20-Year Panel Bert van Landeghem Forthcoming in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
ROA-RM-2011/7	High and steady or low and rising? Life-cycle earnings patterns in vocational and general education Frank Cörvers, Hans Heijke, Ben Kriechel, Harald Pfeifer
ROA-RM-2011/6	The effects of educational systems, school-composition, track-level, parental background and immigrants' origin on the achievement of 15-years old native and immigrant students. A reanalysis of PISA 2006 Jaap Dronkers, Rolf van der Velden, Allison Dunne
ROA-RM-2011/5	Retirement and Subjective Well-Being Eric Bonsang, Tobias J. Klein
ROA-RM-2011/4	Identification Problems in Personality Psychology Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James Heckman, John Eric Humphries
ROA-RM-2011/3	Sorting on Skills and Preferences: Tinbergen Meets Sattinger Arnaud Dupuy
ROA-RM-2011/2	Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity? Annemarie Nelen, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge
ROA-RM-2011/1	Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the U.S. Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn

2010

ROA-RM-2010/14	Social Bonding, Early School Leaving, and Delinquency Tanja Traag, Olivier Marie, Rolf van der Velden
ROA-RM-2010/13	The Crime Reducing Effect of Education Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, Sunčica Vujić Published in Economic Journal, 121(552), 2011, pp. 463-484
ROA-RM-2010/12	Satisfaction with Social Contacts of Older Europeans Eric Bonsang, Arthur van Soest
ROA-RM-2010/11	Satisfaction with job and income among older individuals across European countries Eric Bonsang, Arthur van Soest
ROA-RM-2010/10	Why do low-educated workers invest less in further training? Didier Fouarge, Trudie Schils, Andries de Grip
ROA-RM-2010/9	Police and Thieves in the Stadium: Measuring the (Multiple) Effects of Football Matches on Crime Olivier Marie
ROA-RM-2010/8	Determinants of dropout behaviour in a job training programme for disadvantaged youths Denis de Crombrugghe, Henry Espinoza, Hans Heijke
ROA-RM-2010/7	Cross-country differences in graduate overeducation and its persistence Dieter Verhaest, Rolf van der Velden
ROA-RM-2010/6	An economic model of the evolution of the gender performance ratio in individual sports Arnaud Dupuy
ROA-RM-2010/5	What makes a good conference? Analysing the preferences of labour economists Lex Borghans, Margo Romans, Jan Sauermann Published in Labour Economics, 17(5), 2010, pp. 868-874
ROA-RM-2010/4	Job-training programmes with low completionrates: The case of Projoven-Peru Denis de Crombrugghe, Henry Espinoza, Hans Heijke
ROA-RM-2010/3	Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting - Productivity, Preferences and Gender, Thomas Dohmen Armin Falk Published in American Economic Review, 101(2), 2011, pp. 556-590
ROA-RM-2010/2	You get what you pay for: Incentives and Selection in the Education System Thomas Dohmen Armin Falk Published in Economic Journal, 120(546): F256-F271
ROA-RM-2010/1	Does Retirement Affect Cognitive Functioning? Eric Bonsang, Stéphane Adam, Sergio Perelman

2009

ROA-RM-2009/13	Male and female labour force participation: the role of dynamic adjustments to changes in labour demand, government policies and autonomous trends Maarten Vendrik, Frank Cörvers
ROA-RM-2009/12	The effects of pension rights and retirement age on training participation: Evidence from a natural experiment Raymond Montizaan, Frank Cörvers, Andries De Grip Published in Labour Economics, 17, 2010, pp. 240-247
ROA-RM-2009/11	Estimating employment dynamics across occupations and sectors of industry Frank Cörvers, Arnaud Dupuy Published in Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 32, pp. 17-27
ROA-RM-2009/10	The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research Lex Borghans, Frank Cörvers
ROA-RM-2009/9	The role of geographic mobility in reducing education-job mismatches in the Netherlands Maud M. Hensen, M. Robert de Vries, Frank Cörvers Published in Papers in Regional Science, 88, 2009, pp. 667-682
ROA-RM-2009/8	Does Perceived Support in Employee Development Affect Personnel Turnover? Fleur Koster, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge Published in International Journal of Human Resource Management, 22(11), 2011, pp. 2403-2418
ROA-RM-2009/7	Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability? Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huff man, Uwe Sunde Published in American Economic Review, 100(3), 2010, pp. 1238-1260
ROA-RM-2009/6	Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants and Behavioral Consequences Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner Published in Journal of the European Economic Association, 9(3): 522-550
ROA-RM-2009/5	Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, Huub Meijers
ROA-RM-2009/4	Job mobility and hours of work: the effect of Dutch legislation Didier Fouarge, Christine Baaijens
ROA-RM-2009/3	Shattered Dreams: The Effects of Changing the Pension System Late in the Game Andries de Grip, Maarten Lindeboom, Raymond Montizaan
ROA-RM-2009/2	What affects lifelong learning of scientists and engineers? Andries de Grip, Wendy Smits
ROA-RM-2009/1	The Non-Use of Bayes Rule: Representative Evidence on Bounded Rationality Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Felix Marklein, Uwe Sunde

2008

ROA-RM-2008/11	Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration David A. Jaeger, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Holger Bonin Published in Review of Economics and Statistics, 92(3) 684–689
ROA-RM-2008/10	Repeated Job Quits: Stepping stones or learning about quality? Anne C. Gielen
ROA-RM-2008/9	Biased Probability Judgment: Representative Evidence for Pervasiveness and Economic Outcomes Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Felix Marklein, Uwe Sunde
ROA-RM-2008/8	Understanding the Technology of Computer Technology Diffusion: Explaining Computer Adoption Patterns and Implications for the Wage Structure Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel Published in Journal of Income Distribution, 17(3-4), 2008, pp. 37-70
ROA-RM-2008/7	Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Behavioural Outcomes Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde Published in the Economic Journal, 119 (536), 2009, pp. 592-612
ROA-RM-2008/6	What affects international migration of European science and engineering graduates? Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge, Jan Sauermann Published in Economics of Innovation and New Technology
ROA-RM-2008/5	Estimating the wage penalty for maternal leave Bianca Buligescu, Denis de Crombrugghe, Gülçin Menteşoğlu, Raymond Montizaan Published in the Oxford Economic Papers, 61 (1), pp. i35-i55
ROA-RM-2008/4	Why do part-time workers invest less in human capital than full-timers? Annemarie Nelen, Andries de Grip Published in Labour, 23, 2009, pp. 61-83
ROA-RM-2008/3	Early school-leaving in the Netherlands, The role of student-, family- and school factors for early school-leaving in lower secondary education Tanja Traag, Rolf, K.W. van der Velden
ROA-RM-2008/2	Occupational Structures across 25 EU Countries: The Importance of Industry Structure and Technology in Old and New EU Countries Frank Cörvers, Jaanika Meriküll Economic Change and Restructuring, Vol. 40, pp. 327-359
ROA-RM-2008/1	The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits Lex Borghans, Angela Lee Duckworth, James J. Heckman, Bas ter Weel Published in the Journal of Human Resources, 43 (4), 2008, pp. 972-1059

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