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Flexibility and Structure of the Dutch Labour Market
No full textThis chapter investigates the changes in the structure of the Dutch labour market between 1981 and 1993. It focuses on the occupational structure of the labour force with a certain educational background. The chapter presents an overview of the quantitative changes between 1981 and 1993. It discusses the measurement of the size of the occupational domain and the similarities between the occupational domains of different types of education. The chapter provides an example of a changing overlapping structure. It describes the changes in the occupational structure, and analyses the developments in similarity between types of education. The extent of the occupational domain is measured by an index which is closely connected to the indicator for switching opportunities introduced by J. Warnken and Andries de Grip and Hans Heijke. The overlap in the occupational domain is measured by the similarity index introduced in Lex Borghans
sj-docx-1-gcq-10.1177_00169862221104026 – Supplemental material for Who Is Considered Gifted From a Teacher’s Perspective? A Representative Large-Scale Study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-gcq-10.1177_00169862221104026 for Who Is Considered Gifted From a Teacher’s Perspective? A Representative Large-Scale Study by Jessika Golle, Trudie Schils, Lex Borghans and Norman Rose in Gifted Child Quarterly</p
Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003
No full textIn this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main actors. The analyses are based on administrative sources allowing for comparisons between and within firms, and in which workers can be followed over time. In the period investigated the Netherlands experienced an increase in wage inequality. Despite the centralized system of wage negotiations in the Netherlands, our findings suggest that market forces were the main determinant of wage growth. Workers with similar wages experienced similar wage increases in firms of different sizes. Wages increases were larger for low-skilled workers in industries with large increases in demand than in other industries. Variation in wage growth was mainly at the individual level. Firm-level wage increases accounted for only 12 % of the total variation.
What happens when agent T gets a computer?
No full textDuring the last decade a great many authors have shown that computers have a large impact on skill demand, production processes, and the organization and intensity of work. Analyses have indicated that the rates of change of these variables have been the largest in the more computer-intensive sectors. Empirical findings, however, suggest that the effects of computers on the labor market are complicated and difficult to trace. This paper offers a simple model to explain how computers have changed the labor market. The model demonstrates that wage differentials between computer users and other workers are consistent with the observation that computers are first introduced in high-wage jobs because of cost efficiency. It also shows that neither computer skills nor complementary skills are needed to explain skill upgrading, changes in product characteristics, and the organization and intensity of work. Finally, it is shown that these findings shed a different light on the way computers have changed the labor market and on the changes to be expected following the further diffusion of computers.economics of technology ;
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