Wolter Hassink
Biographic Data
| ID | 3575992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolter Hassink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolter |
| FAMILY NAME | Hassink |
| SIGNATURE | HASSINK W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3508-7970 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Structural or cyclical decline: Commercial court cases in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, the number of commercial court cases has been declining since the end of the 2008 financial crisis. A similar decline is observed in other countries. The reasons for this decline are not well understood. Therefore, we investigate to what extent this decline is related to the business cycle and to what extent it is related to structural factors. To address this question, we use administrative data provided by the Dutch judiciar…
Towards a Framework for Digital Governance Curricula: What Skills and Knowledge do Governance Students Need
Digital technologies are rapidly becoming deeply entrenched in society. These technologies provide challenges and opportunities for democratic and organizational processes, and social interactions between governments and citizens. In this study, we focus on the skills governance students need to obtain to fully grasp the opportunities and challenges raised by digitalization in the public sector and society at large. Using a design approach, we fi…
Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss
This paper studies whether women and men cope with job loss differently. Using 2006-2017 Dutch administrative monthly microdata and a quasi-experimental empirical design involving job displacement because of firm bankruptcy, we find that displaced women are more likely than displaced men to find a flexible job with limited working hours and short commutes. Relative to displaced men, displaced women tend to acquire a job with an 8 percentage point…
Endogenous local labour markets, regional aggregation and agglomeration economies
We examine the role of spatial unit size in measuring the urban wage premium. Using Dutch administrative data, we define local labour markets (LLMs) based on employees’ commuting outcomes, gender and educational attainment. We show that high-educated employees and male employees have a relatively large LLM. Using a continuum of regional aggregations, we find that urban wage premium estimates increase over the level of aggregation, also for differ…
The role of the housing market in workers′ resilience to job displacement after firm bankruptcy
A note on height and surnames: The role of networks
Many studies indicate that human height is determined largely by childhood circumstances, which in turn influences an adult's labor market opportunities. The aim of this note is to test this thesis by examining the correlation between childhood circumstances and labor market outcomes on the one hand, and heights on the other, when networks are included as proxied by surnames. The fact that, after the inclusion of this surname proxy, we find a cor…
Credit Constraints and Price Expectations of Homeowners
This paper examines the effect of credit constraints on the sale price expectations of homeowners. We extend the results of Genesove and Mayer (1997) by using a sample of mover and non-mover families living in the Netherlands—a country without formal down-payment requirements. We find that homeowners who are more credit constrained expect to sell their house for a higher price. Homeowners already seem to compensate for credit constraints at the v…
The Importance of Income and Housing Wealth Constraints for Future Residential Mobility
This paper investigates to what extent the mark-up on the lending rate for mortgages depends on expected prepayment. It identifies the effect of the risk of expected prepayment by using a unique dataset of Dutch borrowers insured against default. It is argued that expected prepayment is mainly caused by expected residential mobility of the borrower, which might be due to a change of the value of the collateral or because of a change of income of …
Time-bound opportunity costs of informal care: Consequences for access to professional care, caregiver support, and labour supply estimates
Do Financial Bonuses Reduce Employee Absenteeism? Evidence from a Lottery
This paper investigates the effectiveness of a lottery-based bonus reward system in reducing employee absenteeism. Starting in June 2002, a Dutch manufacturing firm held a monthly lottery for workers who had taken no sick leave in the previous three months and had not previously won the lottery. In a given lottery, each of seven contestants whose names were randomly drawn received 75 Euros. The authors find statistically significant differences i…
Price discrimination between EU regions
Prices of identical products differ tremendously among EU countries. Prices of IKEA products range by more than 40% on average, which is far more than the 12% price difference the EU Commission regards as compatible with competitive markets. These price differences can only partly be attributed to differences in non‐tradable cost components between countries (such as wage costs or value‐added taxes). The economic explanation for this phenomenon i…
Time-bound opportunity costs of informal care: Consequences for access to professional care, caregiver support, and labour supply estimates
Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss
This paper studies whether women and men cope with job loss differently. Using 2006-2017 Dutch administrative monthly microdata and a quasi-experimental empirical design involving job displacement because of firm bankruptcy, we find that displaced women are more likely than displaced men to find a flexible job with limited working hours and short commutes. Relative to displaced men, displaced women tend to acquire a job with an 8 percentage point…
The role of the housing market in workers′ resilience to job displacement after firm bankruptcy
Price discrimination between EU regions
Prices of identical products differ tremendously among EU countries. Prices of IKEA products range by more than 40% on average, which is far more than the 12% price difference the EU Commission regards as compatible with competitive markets. These price differences can only partly be attributed to differences in non‐tradable cost components between countries (such as wage costs or value‐added taxes). The economic explanation for this phenomenon i…
Do Financial Bonuses Reduce Employee Absenteeism? Evidence from a Lottery
This paper investigates the effectiveness of a lottery-based bonus reward system in reducing employee absenteeism. Starting in June 2002, a Dutch manufacturing firm held a monthly lottery for workers who had taken no sick leave in the previous three months and had not previously won the lottery. In a given lottery, each of seven contestants whose names were randomly drawn received 75 Euros. The authors find statistically significant differences i…
The Importance of Income and Housing Wealth Constraints for Future Residential Mobility
This paper investigates to what extent the mark-up on the lending rate for mortgages depends on expected prepayment. It identifies the effect of the risk of expected prepayment by using a unique dataset of Dutch borrowers insured against default. It is argued that expected prepayment is mainly caused by expected residential mobility of the borrower, which might be due to a change of the value of the collateral or because of a change of income of …
Time-bound opportunity costs of informal care: Consequences for access to professional care, caregiver support, and labour supply estimates
A note on height and surnames: The role of networks
Many studies indicate that human height is determined largely by childhood circumstances, which in turn influences an adult's labor market opportunities. The aim of this note is to test this thesis by examining the correlation between childhood circumstances and labor market outcomes on the one hand, and heights on the other, when networks are included as proxied by surnames. The fact that, after the inclusion of this surname proxy, we find a cor…
Credit Constraints and Price Expectations of Homeowners
This paper examines the effect of credit constraints on the sale price expectations of homeowners. We extend the results of Genesove and Mayer (1997) by using a sample of mover and non-mover families living in the Netherlands—a country without formal down-payment requirements. We find that homeowners who are more credit constrained expect to sell their house for a higher price. Homeowners already seem to compensate for credit constraints at the v…
The role of the housing market in workers′ resilience to job displacement after firm bankruptcy
Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss
This paper studies whether women and men cope with job loss differently. Using 2006-2017 Dutch administrative monthly microdata and a quasi-experimental empirical design involving job displacement because of firm bankruptcy, we find that displaced women are more likely than displaced men to find a flexible job with limited working hours and short commutes. Relative to displaced men, displaced women tend to acquire a job with an 8 percentage point…
Endogenous local labour markets, regional aggregation and agglomeration economies
We examine the role of spatial unit size in measuring the urban wage premium. Using Dutch administrative data, we define local labour markets (LLMs) based on employees’ commuting outcomes, gender and educational attainment. We show that high-educated employees and male employees have a relatively large LLM. Using a continuum of regional aggregations, we find that urban wage premium estimates increase over the level of aggregation, also for differ…
Structural or cyclical decline: Commercial court cases in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, the number of commercial court cases has been declining since the end of the 2008 financial crisis. A similar decline is observed in other countries. The reasons for this decline are not well understood. Therefore, we investigate to what extent this decline is related to the business cycle and to what extent it is related to structural factors. To address this question, we use administrative data provided by the Dutch judiciar…
Towards a Framework for Digital Governance Curricula: What Skills and Knowledge do Governance Students Need
Digital technologies are rapidly becoming deeply entrenched in society. These technologies provide challenges and opportunities for democratic and organizational processes, and social interactions between governments and citizens. In this study, we focus on the skills governance students need to obtain to fully grasp the opportunities and challenges raised by digitalization in the public sector and society at large. Using a design approach, we fi…
Economics (9 works) · Business (6 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Housing Market and Economics (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Microeconomics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Wage (4 works) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (3 works)