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    Home and Mortgage Ownership of the Dutch Elderly: Explaining Cohort, Time and Age Effects

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    The relationship between home ownership of Dutch elderly households and age is strongly negative. Other studies suggest that this age gradient should be attributed to a cohort effect. In this paper we investigate where those cohort effects come from. We also observe that mortgage ownership among elderly home-owners increased considerably during the nineties. Using panel data we estimate models explaining home and mortgage ownership by age, cohort, and time effects, as well as other factors. Cohort and time effects are modelled explicitly using macro economic and housing market related variables. We find that the level of GDP per capita when the household head was young is the main factor explaining generation effects in home ownership among the elderly. After accounting for cohort effects it also appears that home ownership decreases slightly with age. Mortgage ownership among elderly home owners rose considerably during the nineties due to house price increases and due to financial innovation in the mortgage market. Cohort effects are also important. A supplementary analysis suggests that those cohort effects are due to the fact that the accidental bequest motive is becoming less important.home ownership, mortgages, cohort effects

    Idea planowania interaktywnego w projektowaniu urbanistycznym

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    Paper presents brief history of interactive urban planning tools developed by the Dutch office ONL and experimental idea for planning housing areas used by the author in a competition entry for a masterplan for railway area in the centre of Stargard as well as in sketch design for a new centre of Rokietnica.Tekst prezentuje krótką historię interaktywnych narzędzi planowania urbanistycznego opracowanych przez holenderską pracownię ONL oraz pomysł eksperymentalnego podejścia do planowania osiedli mieszkaniowych użyty przez autora w projekcie konkursowym na zagospodarowanie terenów kolejowych w centrum Stargardu jak też w szkicowym projekcie nowego centrum Rokietnicy

    Acoustic differences between German and Dutch labiodentals

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    The present article is a follow-up study of the investigation of labiodentals in German and Dutch by Hamann & Sennema (2005), where we looked at the perception of the Dutch labiodental three-way contrast by German listeners without any knowledge of Dutch and German learners of Dutch

    Dutch Classicist Architecture

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    A Survey of Dutch Architecture, Gardens and Anglo-Dutch Architectural Relations from 1625 to 1700.ArchitectureArchitectur

    Dutch decision as rooted in Dutch culture: An ethnologic study of the Dutch decision process

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    Consensus is a mode of regulation well adapted to globalisation as it provides a means to reach agreements and manage diversity at the same time. However, is it a universal decision mode? This study explores the co-existence of individualism and collectivism in Dutch consensus. A descriptive and interpretive analysis of the Dutch decision process allows to disentangle the mechanism by which individual autonomy and cooperation articulate. This mechanism is assisted by a series of social devices that. are described and discussed as deeply rooted in Dutch society. Viewed from a French perspective, consensus reveals a number of obstacles and a totally different patterns of collective representations. Consequences for intercultural management are stressed.Individual autonomy, cooperation, coexistence individualism and collectivism, consensus, Dutch decision process, french decision, articulation individuual collective

    Syntax of Dutch: Adjectives and Adjective Phrases

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    The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the syntax of Dutch, including advanced students of language and linguistics. The volume Adjectives and Adjective Phrases discusses the internal make-up as well as the distribution of adjective phrases. Topics that will be covered include: complementation and modification of adjective phrases; comparative and superlative formation; the attributive, predicative and adverbial uses of adjective phrases. Special attention is paid to the so-called partitive genitive construction and the adverbial use of past/passive participles and infinitives

    Does the Dutch Model Really Exist?

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    The policy that has led from the ‘Dutch disease’ (in the 1980s) to the ‘Dutch miracle’ (in the 1990s) consists of three tracks: 1) wage moderation, 2) retrenching public expenditure and reducing the tax burden, 3) slimming the welfare system. The wage moderation track seems to have been the most important one. The term ‘Dutch model’ refers to the socioeconomic system of the Netherlands. Most observers point in particular to the relatively low unemployment rate to indicate the success of this model. However, the economic inactivity rate in the Netherlands is not lower than in neighboring countries. This suggests that open unemployment in the Netherlands has partly been replaced with hidden unemployment. In particular the disability scheme seems to contain a large component of hidden unemployment. Another feature of the Dutch model is its consensus seeking nature, which is fostered by its institutional structure.Dutch model, welfare system, Dutch disease, Dutch miracle

    Prof. Th. W. Adorno and the author Hans Erich Nossack.

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    Prof. Th. W. Adorno and the author Hans Erich Nossack at a reception of Insel Verlag, Buchmesse Frankfurt 1966LB

    Optimal Dutch Disease

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    Growth models of the Dutch disease, such as those of Krugman (1987), Matsuyama (1992), Sachs and Warner (1995) and Gylfason et al. (1999), explain why resource abundance may reduce growth. However, the literature also raises a new question: if the use of resource wealth hurts productivity growth, how should such wealth be optimally managed? This question forms the topic of the present paper, in which we extend the growth literature on the Dutch disease from a positive to a normative setting. We show that the assumptions in the previous literature imply that the optimal share of national wealth consumed in each period needs to be adjusted down. However, some Dutch disease is always optimal. Thus lower growth in resource abundant countries may not be a problem in itself, but may be part of an optimal growth path. The optimal spending path of the resource wealth may be increasing or decreasing over time, and we discuss why this is the case.Growth; Foreign Exchange Gifts; Resource Wealth; Optimal Saving; Current Account Dynamics
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