... individual register data of the entire immigrant population for 2005 from Statistics Netherlands, the paper employs standard probit models to estimate differences in welfare use between immigrant groups that are divided into the first and second generations. Findings The analysis shows that migrants from...

...Kéne Henkens; Joop Schippers; Dominique Anxo; Thomas Ericson; Annie Jolivet Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the main evolutions and the current situation of the 50‐74 year olds on the labour market in eight European countries (Denmark France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden...

... can do to extend working lives. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyse surveys administered to employers in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and the UK in 2009. Findings It is found that a minority of employers have applied measures to recruit or retain...

.../approach Using the Volunteer Function Inventory (VFI), the authors measured motivations to volunteer of volunteers aged 50 or older, belonging to organizations engaged in the largest activity sectors of three European countries: The Netherlands (n=468), Germany (n=113) and Italy...

... on the perceived gap, and whether a perceived labour cost‐productivity gap affects employers’ recruitment and retention behaviour towards older workers. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyse surveys administered to employers in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden...

... on the determinants of human capital development by including both formal training and different modes of informal learning; and employee characteristics as well as job and firm characteristics in its analyses. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 The Netherlands Lifelong learning Skills Training...

... and physical aspects of the job (demands) play a large part in explaining burnout (Halbesleben and Buckley, 2004). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Burnout Retirement Older workers The Netherlands Work psychology Raising the labor force participation of older workers...

... between employee participation and OCB, and a positive relationship between selective recruitment and selection and OCB. These findings suggest: Human resource management Job satisfaction Citizenship Employees behaviour Health services The Netherlands Testing the added value of human...

... with the characteristics of their jobs (H1). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Job mobility Education Gender Job satisfaction The Netherlands Work plays an important role in the lives of people. Not only does it generate income and status, but content also matters to employees, as does...

... dependency). Findings No evidence is found on the existence of mono‐ethnic neighbourhoods in The Netherlands. The higher concentration of non‐Western immigrants in the large cities occurs in neighbourhoods with a high degree of diversity from several origins. An apparent strong correlation between...

... Promotion The Netherlands Sorting of employees within labor markets is a complex phenomenon as employees may change jobs both between and within firms [1] . The presence of an Internal Labor Market (ILM) in large firms suggests that the internal allocative process is insulated from the outside [2...

... that 58 per cent of these agreements allowed employees some choice in their benefits (Schrama and van den Ameele, 2004). Korteweg et al. (2003) analysed the collective labour agreements in the database of the FNV, the largest trade union federation in The Netherlands. Of the 1,078 CLAs...

...Carlo Altavilla; Benoît Mahy; François Rycx; Piet Allaart; Lutz Bellmann Purpose This paper is a cross‐national study of the incidence of part‐time work. The purpose of this paper is to investigate to what extent the difference between Germany and The Netherlands can be explained from the demand...

.... This paper shows how the use of these work arrangement fluctuates over time. Also, this paper shows that agency work can be used in predicting future GDP development. Temporary workers Recruitment agencies Business cycles Employment Time series analysis The Netherlands © Emerald Group...

... employers in The Netherlands. Factor analyses and regression analyses are carried out to explain different recruitment strategies. Findings The factor analyses show that the different recruitment methods can be traced back to three recruitment strategies. The first strategy was described as active...

... of a diagnostic research tool specifically developed for profiling organizational knowledge‐based practices. The diagnostic tool was applied in firms located in Silicon Valley in the USA, Singapore, The Netherlands and Israel. Findings Key practices that were found to be common to leading‐edge firms in all...

...Wendy Smits; Thomas Zwick This paper analyses why in Germany and The Netherlands the share of apprentices in the business service sector is lower than in other economic sectors. A theoretical introduction surveys the potential reasons that could be responsible for this. The subsequent empirical...

... Accountability The Netherlands Initial public offering (IPO) refers to a company transformed into a public limited company (PLC), i.e. a company listed on the stock exchange. In other words, IPO applies to firms that offer their stock to the public market for the first time, going from private to public...

... Employment Training The Netherlands The set‐up of the rest of this article is as follows. In the next section, we first provide definitions of the various types of skills obsolescence, the risk factors and the possible remedies we distinguish between. At the end of this section, we provide a short...

... of these definitions. It is found that the definitions differ widely in the workers who are identified as over‐ or undereducated. Further, the methods yield different estimates of the returns to over‐ and undereducation. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Education Skills Labour market The Netherlands...