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2012

May 15, Ahmed Mohamed, Maastricht University, The Part-Time Skill Gap, Pay Penalty, and Job Content

May 8, Marco Francesconi, University of Essex, Anatomy of Welfare Reform: Announcement and Implementation Effects

May 1,Daniel Hamermesh, University of Texas and Maastricht University, Light or lighter? Tall or taller? Pretty or prettier? The nature of market responses to ascriptive characteristics

April 24 DUHR-O&S, Sjir Uitdewilligen, Maastricht University, Isn't it about time we start taking events in teams seriously?

April 17, Jan Sauermann, Maastricht University,The Effect of Bonus Pay on Performance Measures: Evidence from Personnel Data

April 3, Johannes Abeler, University of Oxford, Preferences for truth-telling

March 27, Arnold Bakker DUHR- O&S, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Employee Work Engagement

March 20, Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Police and Clearance Rates: Evidence from Quasi-Random Redeployment Within a Citybreastfeeding duration

March 6, Fabian Kosse, IZA, Early life-circumstances and preference formation - the case of breastfeeding duration

February 28, Kees van den Bos DUHR- O&S, University of Ultrecht, Liberating Human Resources

February 14, Olivier Marie, Maastricht University, Negative Fertility Shocks after German Reunification and Criminal Propensity of the Children of the Wall

February 7, Bas van der Klaauw, VU Amsterdam, Dynamic Evaluation of Job Search Assistance

January 31, Ebru Isgin, Rutgers University, Information Transparency, fairness and labor market efficiency

January 24, Mark Bernard, Stockholm School of Economics, An experimental investigation of employment protection and labor substitutability

January 17, Roel van Veldhuizen, University Amsterdam, Bribery and the Fair Salary Hypothesis in the Lab

 

2011

December 13, Marc van Veldhoven, Tilburg University, Enriched job design, high involvement management and organizational performance: The mediating roles of job satisfaction and well-being

December 6, Thomas Dohmen, Maastricht University, Interpreting Time Horizon Effects in Inter-Temporal Choice

November 29, Oliver Himmler, Max Planck Institute, Self Esteem and Human Capital Formation

November 22, Rodrigo Soares, PUC Rio, Health and Educational Impacts of Early Life Water Scarcity: The Case of the Brazilian Semiarmatters

November 1, Ghazala Azmat, Queen Mary, University of London Performance Pay, Gender Inequality and Young Lawyers

October 18, Ben Kriechel, Maastricht University, Works councils, collective bargaining and apprenticeship training

October 11, Ljubica Nedelkoska, Universität Jena, Skill shortage and skill redundancy: Asymmetry in the transferability of skills

October 4, Jaap Dronkers, Maastricht University, Differential outcomes and social inequality in highly stratified educational systems

September 27, Paolo Pinotti, Bocconi University, The Economic Consequences of Organized Crime: Evidence from Southern Italy

September 20, Maria Zumbühl, Maastricht University, Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences via Parental Investment

September 13, Jan Van Ours, UvT, Why do some people want to legalize cannabis use?

September 6, Rob Euwals, CPB, Migrant Women on the Labour Market: On the Role of Home- and Host-Country Participation

June 28, Bas ter Weel, CPB and Maastricht University, The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Lifematch quality of higher educated graduates

June 7, Sascha O. Becker, University of Warwick and Ifo, The Role of Absorptive Capacity for Growth: A Regression Discontinuity Design with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

May 31, Daniel Hamermesh, Maastricht University, Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness

May 24, David Huffman, Swarthmore College and IZA, Temporary Performance Pay and Worker Intrinsic Motivation: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

May 17, Ben Kriechel, Maastricht University, Play it Again Sam? Career Concerns and Participation Decisions in Piano Competitions

May 12, Dinand Webbink, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, The Effect of Vouchers for Teacher Training on Participation in Training - Results from a Natural Experiment

April 19, Tim Barmby, University of Aberdeen, First or Last: An Economic Model of Contest Judging and Early Performance Bias

April 12, Todd Sorensen, University of California Riverside and IZA, The Labor Market Value to Legal StatusParental Time Investments, and Child Outcomes

March 29, Stephen Machin, University College London, Changing School Autonomy: Academy Schools and Their Introduction to England’s Education

March 24, Thomas Lee, University of Washington, Job Satisfaction Growth and Voluntary Turnover: A Dynamic Multilevel Investigation

March 15, Hessel Oosterbeek, University of Amsterdam, The impact of gender diversity on the performance of business teams: Evidence from a field experiment

February 22, Erwin Ooghe, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, The impact of 'equal educational opportunity' funding in Flanders: a regression discontinuity approach

February 15, Didier Fouarge, Maastricht University, Occupational Sorting of School Leavers: The Role of Economic Preferences

February 8, Miriam Gensowski, University of Chicago, The Effects of Education, Personality, and IQ on Earnings of High-Ability Men

February 3, Fangfang Tan, Tilburg University, Deterrence Effect of Auditing Rules: An Experimental Study

January 31, Ioana Dan, University of Toronto, Gender based self-selection into industries and occupations

January 28, Anikó Bíró, Central European University, Subjective mortality hazard shocks and the adjustment of consumption expenditures

January 27, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Aarhus University, The effect of education on disability pension receipt: evidence from a compulsory schooling reform

January 25, Dirk Antonczyk, Freiburg University, Using Social Norms to Estimate the Effect of Collective Bargaining on the Wage Structure

January 18, Arjan Non, Erasmus School of Economics, Gift-Exchange, Incentives, and Heterogeneous Workers

January 11, Arnaud Dupuy, Maastricht University, Hierarchical Organization and Inequality of an Economy with an Implicit Market for Productive Time

2010

December 14, Ben Vollaard, Tilburg University The crime-reducing effect of sentence enhancements for repeat offenders

December 7, Anja Deelen, CPB,The Returns to Tenure and Seniority

November 30, Michèle Belot, Oxford University, Favoritism Practices at School: A Framed Field Experiment

November 23, Fred Zijlstra, Maastricht University, The role of recovery in our working life

November 16, Erik Plug, University of Amsterdam, Sexual Prejudices, Sexual Orientation and Segregation

November 9, Eric Maurin, Paris School of Economics, Labour Supply Spillover Within the Household: Lessons From a Mandatory Workweek Reduction

November 2, Kristoff de Witte, Maastricht University,To Publish or Not to Publish? On the Aggregation and Drivers of Research Preformance

October 26, Ron Diris, Maastricht University, Allocating Instruction Time: How Language Instruction Can Affect Multiple Skills

October 19, Evert v.d. Vliert, University of Groningen, Beyond Descriptions: Explaining the World’s Work Cultures

October 12, Thomas Dohmen, Maastricht University, Animal Spirits: How Seemingly Irrelevant Events Affect Economic Perceptions and Expectations -The FIFA Worldcup 2006

October 5, Olivier Marie, Maastricht University,The Crime Reducing Effect of Education

September 28, Michael Sattinger, University at Albany, Income Tax Incidence with Positive Population Growth

June 1, Didier Fouarge, ROA, Why do low-skilled workers invest less in further training

May 25, Peter Kuhn, University of California, Employers’ Preferences for Gender, Age, Height and Beauty:Direct Evidence

April 27, Andreas Peichl, IZA, Who are the Losers of the Labour-Market Downturn? A Scenario Analysis for Germany

April 26, Dan Hamermesch, University of Texas at Austin, Charity and favoritism in the field: are female economists nicer (to each other)?

April 13, Jaap Dronkers, Maastricht University, The educational performance of children of immigrants in 16 OECD countries. The influence of educational systems and other societal features of both countries of destination and origin

April 6, Martin Salm, Tilburg University, The relationship between child health, developmental gaps, and parental education: evidence from administrative data

March 23, Olivier Marie, Maastricht University, The Employment Effect of Increasing Disability Benefits:A Regression Discontinuity Approach

March 16, Roger Smeets, CPB, Trade marings and barriers to trade

March 9, Fabian Lange, Yale University, Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures

February 23, Tobias Klein, Tilburg University, Returns to Type or Tenure?

February 22, Cecilla Machado, Columbia University, Selection, Heterogeneity and the Gender Wage Gap

February 9, Maarten Vendrik, Maastricht University, Adaptation, Anticipation and Social Interaction in Happiness

February 4, Andrew McGee, OHIO state University, How the Perception of Control Influences Unemployed Job Search

February 3, Francesco Fasani, UCL, Deporting undocumented immigrants: the role of labor demand shocks

February 2, Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Whose Income is Least Protected against Ill-Health?

January 19, Chandra Shah, Monash University-ACER Centre, Determinants of job separation and occuapational mobility in Australia

2009

December 15, Frank Cörvers, ROA, Location and fields of study choices of students in secondary vocational education in the Netherlands

December 8, Jan Sauermann, ROA, Estimating causal effects from further training: experimental evidence

December 3, Todd Sorensen, University of California, Riverside

December 1, Ron Diris, AE2

November 10, Eric Bonsang, ROA, Retirement and Subjective Well-Being 

November 3, Orla Doyle, Geary Institute, University College Dublin, Maternal Investment and Child Outcomes: The causal effect of breastfeeding on children's health and development

October 27, Marton Csillag, TIER, Machines and machinists:The effect of imported capital on wage inequality

October 20, Emma Tominey, University College London, The Timing of Parental Income on Child Outcomes: The Role of Permanent and Transitory Shocks

October 13, Florian Tomini, School of Governance, How has internal migration in Albania affected transfers amongst kinship members?

October 6, Olivier Marie, AE2/ROA, Education and Youth Crime: Exploring the Causal Relationship

September 22, Arnaud Chevalier, Royal Holloway, University of London, Does higher education quality matter in the UK?

September 15, Marieke Knoef, Universiteit van Tilburg, The use and representativeness of the LISS panel

September 8, Raymond Montizaan, ROA, Shattered Dreams: The Effects of shocks in retirement expectations on subjective well-being and depression rates

September 1, Ludo Visschers, Simon Fraser University, Employment Uncertainty andWage Contracts in Frictional Labor Markets

June 23, Dr. Luis Vila, Universitat de Valencia, The development of competences for innovation: A production function approach to Spanish universities from graduates' point of view

June 16, Drs. Suncica Vujic, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The effects of competition on the quality of primary schools in the Netherlands

June 9, Drs. Charlotte Büchner, ROA, One life, but not the same: A perspective on gender differences in labour market success

June 2, Dr. Anne Gielen, Maastricht University, Moral hazard in Dutch disability receipt: Evidence from an age discontinuity in disability eligibility reviews

May 26, Prof. dr. Peter Kooreman, Tilburg University, Frequency, Labeling, and Default Effects in an Employee Savings Scheme

May 19, Drs. Annemarie Nelen, ROA, Does Part-Time Employment Affect Firm Productivity?

May 12, Dr. Steffen Altman, IZA, Contract Enforcement, Fairness, and Involuntary Unemployment

April 28, Prof. dr. Arthur van Soest, Tilburg University, Heterogeneity in Risk Choice Behaviour in a Broad Population

April 21, Dr. Konstantinos Tatsiramos, IZA, Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Employment Stability: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

April 14, Prof. dr. Andrew Clark, PSE, Winning big but feeling no better? The effect of lottery prizes on physical and mental health

April 7, Paul de Beer and Trudie Schils, AIAS Amsterdam and Maastricht University, The labour market triangle: Unemployment insurance, employment protection and activitation in Europe

March 31, Dr. Erin Krupka, IZA, Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games:Why Does Dictator Game Sharing Vary?

March 24, Dr. Olivier Marie, ROA, Police and Thieves in the Stadium: Impact on Crime of Displacement and Self-Incapacitation due to Football Matches

March 17, Drs. Jan Sauermann, ROA, Tenure, spill-over effects, and output

March 10, Drs. Henry Espinoza Pena, Maastricht University, Is it worthwhile to finish? Job-Training programmes and low completion rate: the case of Projoven-Peru

March 3, Frederic Vermeulen, Tilburg University, An Afriat theorem for the collective model of household consumption

February 10, Julia Schwenkenberg, NYU, The Black-White Income Mobility Gap and Investment in Children's Human Capital

February 6, Fabian Slonimczyk, University of Massachusetts, Earnings Inequality and Skill Mismatch in the U.S:1973 - 2002

2008

December 15, Prof. dr. J. Smith, University of Michigan, The Impact of the UK New Deal for Lone Parents on Benefit Receipt

December 9, Drs. R. Montizaan, ROA, Demotivating Workers: Retrenchment of pension rights and negative reciprocity

November 18, Prof. dr. T. Barmby, University of Aberdeen, Business School, Things can only get worse? An empirical examination of the Peter Principle

November 11, Prof. dr. D. Hamermesh, Department of economics, University of Texas, Grazing and Making Fat: Determinants and Effects

November 4, Prof. dr. J. Mairesse, ENSAE and MERIT, Employment Growth and Innovation in China: A Firm Level Comparison across Provinces and City Districts

Oktober 7, Prof. Dr. N. Datta Gupta, The Danish National Centre for Social Research, Do Health Shocks Increase Retirement More when Workers are Universally Insured?

Oktober 14, Dr. A. Dupuy, ROA and AEII, The Evolution of the Gender pay Gap: Lessons from Track and Field Athletics

Oktober 21, Prof. dr O.H. Swank, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Learning in a Globalizing World: Decision Rights, Reputational Concerns, and the Quality of Information Exchange

Oktober 28, Prof. dr. J. Hartog, Amsterdam School of Economics, Risk attitude and wage growth: replication and reconstruction

September 30, Dr. H. Kox, CPB, A chicken and egg problem? The export - productivity link tested for the Netherlands

September 23, Dr. C. Bonsang, University of Liège, Does retirement affect cognitive performances? A longitudinal approach

September 16, Prof. dr. D. Cobb-Clark, IZA, Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt

September 9, Prof. dr. B. Mitchell, AEII and Centre of Full Employment and Equity University of Newcastle, Great Expectations - migration and labour market outcomes in Aust

September 2, Olivier Marie, Early release from prison and recidivism: a regression discontinuity approach

May 27, Dr. Christoph Grimpe, Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective

May 20, Dr. Didier Fouarge, ROA, The effect of financial incentives on pension age Results from a stated preferences experiment

May 6, Dr. Christophe Meng, ROA, Care or Assert? The impact of the gender match on wage

April 23, Marcello Sartarelli, European University Institute, Students' revealed preferences and ranking of school quality

April 15, Prof. Dr. Bert Balk, Erasmus University, Measuring productivity change without neoclassical assumptions

April 8, Dr. Wilko Letterie, O&S, Non convex adjustment costs and their micro and macro economic implications

March 25, Dr. Anne Gielen, AE2, Job satisfaction, on-the-job search and repeated job quits

March 18, Dr. D. Verhaest, University of Ghent, visiting ROA, Overeducation in the early career: an analysis using sequence techniques

March 4, S. Akcomak, MERIT, The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands

February 19, Prof. dr. R. Veenhoven, Faculty of Social Sciences, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Measures of gross national happiness

February 12 Dr. M. Vendrik, AEI, Maastricht University, The role of dynamic adjustments to changes in labour demand and autonomous trends

2007

December 18, Raymond Montizaan, ROA, The effects of pension rights and retirement age on training participation: Evidence of a natural experiment

December 17, Erik Plug, University of Amsterdam, Sexual Orientation, Disclosure and Earnings (joint work with Peter Berkhout)

December 4, Mary Waller, O&S, UM, More Than a Feeling: Rapport and Synchrony in Teams

November 27, Rebecca Blank, Brookings Institution and University of Michigan, Do State Laws Affect the Age of Marriage? A Cautionary Tale About Avoidance Behavior

November 13, Marko Tervio, University of California, Berkeley, The Difference that CEOs Make: An Assignment Model Approach

Oktober 7, Jan Jacobs, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the Euro area (joint work with Gerard H. Kuper and Johan Verlinden)

Oktober 19, Robert Holzmann, World Bank, Aging Populations and Financial Markets: Global Challenges and Regional Perspectives for Central, Eastern and Southern Europe

Oktober 23, Bas Straathof, CPB. Hotspot services in the open spectrum: Implications of market organization for coverage and welfare (joint work with Bert Sadowski)

Oktober 30, Trudie Schils, Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies, University of Amsterdam, Early retirement in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom: A longitudinal analysis of individual factors and institutional regimes

September 25, Jouke van Dijk, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Regional Differences in Productivity Growth in the Netherlands: An Industry-level Growth Accounting

June 19, Paola Giuliano, IMF and visiting lecturer, Department of Economics Harvard, The Power of the Family

May 1, Arnaud Dupuy, ROA, A Microfoundation for Production Functions: Assignment of Heterogenous Workers to Heterogenous Jobs

April 17, Regina Riphahn, Department of Economics, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in Germany - The last five decades

March 27, Didier Fouarge, University Tilburg, Participation in training and its effect on the decision to retire early

March 6, Joël Hellier, University of Nantes and IFRESI, Minimum wage and Redistribution: Impacts on Skill Dynamics, Inequality and Income

February 27, Anne Gielen, CentER and Department of Economics, Why do worker-firm matches dissolve?

February 13, Joan Muysken, Department of Economics, University of Maastricht, Health, Education and Endogenous Growth in a North-South Setting

February 6, Serkan Ozbeklik, Ohio State University, The Effect of Abortion Legalization on Teenage Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in Future Cohorts

February 2, Ron Oertel, Department of Economics, UNC at Chapel Hill, The Sensitivity of School Re-enrollment to Market Conditions and the Cost of Attendance

January 30, Alexander Janiak, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Does Trade Liberalization Lead to Unemployment? Theory and Some Evidence

January 23, Todd Sorensen, Department of Economics, University of Arizona, The Effects of Border Enforcement on Migrants. Border Crossing Choices: Diversion, or Deterrence?

January 12, Jean-Pascal Guironnet, Lameta, Human capital allocation and overeducation: A measure of French productivity (1987, 1999), (joint work with N. Peypoch)

January 9, Laia Castany, Barcelona University, The Role of Firm Size in Training Provision Decisions: the Spanish Case

 

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