Theoretical work in the past decades has argued that the increasing concentration of ownership by institutional investors may lead to decreased competition between commonly owned companies, resulting in inefficient market ...

This study is the first to investigate whether and how retirement norms have changed. A so-called happiness approach is followed, which involves comparing the happiness of retirees to the happiness of workers aged 60 to ...

For decades GDP has been the most influential economic metric in policymaking, but in recent decades, its fitness as a measure of well-being has been called into serious question. Numerous alternatives have emerged to ...

This study compares the causes of the diverge paths Greece and Ireland followed towards the completion of the EU-ECB-IMF programs. By conducting a qualitative content analysis on the headlines of two newspapers from each ...

Immigration and subsequent integration of newcomers is one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century. Whilst the public and political debate is heavily centred around cultural integration, scientific contributions ...

Productivity growth is an understudied part of the macro-economic impact of employment protection legislation (EPL), which usually focuses on the impact on employment. This thesis studies the influence of EPL on productivity ...

This research studies the effect of tobacco taxation and size regulation of health warning labels of tobacco packages on tobacco consumption. Studies such as Chaloupka (1999) state that tobacco taxation is the most effective ...

In a time of increasing immigration and ethnic diversity, society is put under pressure. A recent report by the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (2018) has shown that ethnic diversity is not only greater than ...