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Bas van der Klaauw Aan het werk
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Nederlands | 26 pagina's | Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam | 2010
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Bas van der Klaauw | J.C. van Ours Carrot and stick: how reemployment bonuses and benefit sanctions affect job finding rates
To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients were entitled to a reemployment bonus if they found a job that lasted at least six months. However, they could also be punished for noncompliance with eligibility requirements and face a sanction, i.e. a temporary reducing of their benefits. In this paper...
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Engels | 28 pagina's | Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2010
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E.R. de Wit | Bas van der Klaauw Asymmetric information and list price reductions in the housing market
In housing markets with asymmetric information list prices may signal unobserved properties of the house or the seller. Asymmetric information is the starting point of many models for the housing market. In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of list-price reductions to test for the presence of asymmetric information. We use very rich and extensive administrative data from the Netherlands. Our empirical results show that list-price reductions significantly increase the probability of selling...
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Engels | 27 pagina's | Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2010
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Jonneke Bolhaar | Maarten Lindeboom | Bas van der Klaauw Insurance search and switching behavior
This paper looks into the search behavior of consumers in the market for health insurance contracts. We consider the recent health insurance reform in The Netherlands, where a private-public mix of insurance provision was replaced by a system based on managed competition. Although all insurers offer the same basic package (determined by the government), there is substantial premium dispersion. We develop a simple consumer search model containing the main features of the Dutch health insurance system....
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Engels | 37 pagina's | Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2010
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