Bas Ter Weel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1080147 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bas Ter Weel |
| PRENOMES | Bas Ter |
| SOBRENOME | Weel |
| ASSINATURA | TER WEEL B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8446-7457 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 135 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Towards integrated advice for pandemic policies
The short-term effect of a Covid-19 infection on employment probabilities of labour-market entrants in the Netherlands
This research estimates the effect of a COVID-19 infection on the employment probabilities of two cohorts of labour-market entrants in the Netherlands. To identify the causal effect, we exploit variation in registered (positive) COVID-19 (PCR) test results among graduates over time and estimate a heterogeneity-robust difference-in-difference model. The empirical results suggest that a COVID-19 infection decreases the employment probabilities of p…
Why Did the Netherlands Develop So Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
This research establishes a link between the Brethren of the Common Life (BCL), a religious community founded by Geert Groote in Deventer in the late fourteenth century, and the early economic development of the Netherlands. The BCL stimulated human capital accumulation. The historical analyses show that the BCL contributed to the high rates of literacy, to the high level of book production and to city growth in the Netherlands. These findings ar…
Fostering and Measuring Skills
IQ tests and achievement tests do not capture non-cognitive skills - personality traits, goals, character and motivations that are valued in the labour market, in school and elsewhere. For many outcomes, their predictive power rivals or exceeds that of cognitive skills. Skills are stable across situations with different incentives. Skills are not immutable over the life cycle. While they have a genetic basis they are also shaped by environments, …
Fostering and Measuring Skills
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills.The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills|personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in school, and in many other domains.Their predictive power rivals that of cognitive skills.Reliable measures of character have been developed.All measures of char…
People Skills and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups
In this article, the authors show that people skills are important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including occupational choice and wages. Technological and organizational changes have increased the importance of people skills in the workplace. The authors particularly focus on how the increased importance of these skills has affected the labor-market outcomes of underrepresented groups, assuming that gender differences in interactions an…
The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits
This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We examine the predictive power of personality, and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. We develop simple analytical frameworks for interpreting the evidence in personality psychology and suggest promising avenues for future research.
Social capital, innovation and growth
Feature
The emergence and rapid diffusion of information and communication technology is the most radical technological transformation of the last couple of decades and has had an enormous economic impact. This bundle of four articles contains research that discusses major economic implications of the diffusion of IT. They focus on two main implications of IT: ("i") networks and industry dynamics, and ("ii") IT and workplace organisation. The two sets of…
The Division of Labour, Worker Organisation, and Technological Change
The model developed in this article explains differences in the division of labour across firms as a result of computer technology adoption. Changes in the division of labour result from reduced production time and improved communication possibilities. The first shifts the division of labour towards generic structures, while the latter enhances specialisation. Our estimates for a sample of Dutch establishments in the period 1990-6 suggest that pr…
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Fostering and Measuring Skills
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills.The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills|personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in school, and in many other domains.Their predictive power rivals that of cognitive skills.Reliable measures of character have been developed.All measures of char…
Fostering and Measuring Skills
IQ tests and achievement tests do not capture non-cognitive skills - personality traits, goals, character and motivations that are valued in the labour market, in school and elsewhere. For many outcomes, their predictive power rivals or exceeds that of cognitive skills. Skills are stable across situations with different incentives. Skills are not immutable over the life cycle. While they have a genetic basis they are also shaped by environments, …
Why Did the Netherlands Develop So Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
This research establishes a link between the Brethren of the Common Life (BCL), a religious community founded by Geert Groote in Deventer in the late fourteenth century, and the early economic development of the Netherlands. The BCL stimulated human capital accumulation. The historical analyses show that the BCL contributed to the high rates of literacy, to the high level of book production and to city growth in the Netherlands. These findings ar…
People Skills and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups
In this article, the authors show that people skills are important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including occupational choice and wages. Technological and organizational changes have increased the importance of people skills in the workplace. The authors particularly focus on how the increased importance of these skills has affected the labor-market outcomes of underrepresented groups, assuming that gender differences in interactions an…
The Division of Labour, Worker Organisation, and Technological Change
The model developed in this article explains differences in the division of labour across firms as a result of computer technology adoption. Changes in the division of labour result from reduced production time and improved communication possibilities. The first shifts the division of labour towards generic structures, while the latter enhances specialisation. Our estimates for a sample of Dutch establishments in the period 1990-6 suggest that pr…
Feature
The emergence and rapid diffusion of information and communication technology is the most radical technological transformation of the last couple of decades and has had an enormous economic impact. This bundle of four articles contains research that discusses major economic implications of the diffusion of IT. They focus on two main implications of IT: ("i") networks and industry dynamics, and ("ii") IT and workplace organisation. The two sets of…
Cybertax
Cybertax
Feature
The emergence and rapid diffusion of information and communication technology is the most radical technological transformation of the last couple of decades and has had an enormous economic impact. This bundle of four articles contains research that discusses major economic implications of the diffusion of IT. They focus on two main implications of IT: ("i") networks and industry dynamics, and ("ii") IT and workplace organisation. The two sets of…
The Division of Labour, Worker Organisation, and Technological Change
The model developed in this article explains differences in the division of labour across firms as a result of computer technology adoption. Changes in the division of labour result from reduced production time and improved communication possibilities. The first shifts the division of labour towards generic structures, while the latter enhances specialisation. Our estimates for a sample of Dutch establishments in the period 1990-6 suggest that pr…
The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits
This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We examine the predictive power of personality, and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. We develop simple analytical frameworks for interpreting the evidence in personality psychology and suggest promising avenues for future research.
Social capital, innovation and growth
Fostering and Measuring Skills
IQ tests and achievement tests do not capture non-cognitive skills - personality traits, goals, character and motivations that are valued in the labour market, in school and elsewhere. For many outcomes, their predictive power rivals or exceeds that of cognitive skills. Skills are stable across situations with different incentives. Skills are not immutable over the life cycle. While they have a genetic basis they are also shaped by environments, …
Fostering and Measuring Skills
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills.The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills|personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in school, and in many other domains.Their predictive power rivals that of cognitive skills.Reliable measures of character have been developed.All measures of char…
People Skills and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups
In this article, the authors show that people skills are important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including occupational choice and wages. Technological and organizational changes have increased the importance of people skills in the workplace. The authors particularly focus on how the increased importance of these skills has affected the labor-market outcomes of underrepresented groups, assuming that gender differences in interactions an…
Why Did the Netherlands Develop So Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
This research establishes a link between the Brethren of the Common Life (BCL), a religious community founded by Geert Groote in Deventer in the late fourteenth century, and the early economic development of the Netherlands. The BCL stimulated human capital accumulation. The historical analyses show that the BCL contributed to the high rates of literacy, to the high level of book production and to city growth in the Netherlands. These findings ar…
The short-term effect of a Covid-19 infection on employment probabilities of labour-market entrants in the Netherlands
This research estimates the effect of a COVID-19 infection on the employment probabilities of two cohorts of labour-market entrants in the Netherlands. To identify the causal effect, we exploit variation in registered (positive) COVID-19 (PCR) test results among graduates over time and estimate a heterogeneity-robust difference-in-difference model. The empirical results suggest that a COVID-19 infection decreases the employment probabilities of p…
Towards integrated advice for pandemic policies
Economics (7 obras) · Demographic economics (3 obras) · Economic geography (3 obras) · ICT Impact and Policies (3 obras) · Labour economics (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Business (2 obras) · Cognitive Abilities and Testing (2 obras) · Cognitive skill (2 obras) · Digital Platforms and Economics (2 obras)