Professor of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam @ErasmusUni; voorzitter Economenvereniging KVS @KVSEconomen; gastschrijver @DeCorrespondent
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Voorwoord Preadviezen 2025
De KVS Preadviezen kennen een lange en rijke geschiedenis, die mooi beschreven is in een ESB-artikel uit 2016, getiteld ‘De Nederlandse club van politieke economen’ van Michiel Bijlsma en Harry van Dalen. Al sinds de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw komen economen jaarlijks bijeen om te spreken over een actueel economisch onderwerp en daarover – op basis van argumenten en na soms lange discussie – standpunten te bepalen. Vanaf 1884 krijgen de Preadviezen steeds meer hun huidige vorm.
Socially Useless Jobs
It has been claimed that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e. that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly anecdotal. We use a representative dataset comprising 100,000 workers from 47 countries at four points in time. We find that approximately 8% of workers perceive their job as socially useless, while another 17% are doubtful about the usefulness of their job.
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Zijn werknemersaandelen wel zo’n goed idee?
De kans is groot dat het je is ontgaan, maar onlangs heeft het kabinet een wijs besluit genomen. De overheid zal zich niet hardmaken voor werknemersaandelen. Dat moeten werkgevers en werknemers zelf maar regelen. Is het dan geen goed idee om werknemers aandelen te geven van het bedrijf waarvoor ze werken?
Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life
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Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life
Preferences for monetary and non-monetary job attributes are important for understanding workers' motivation and the organization of work. Little is known, however, about how those job preferences are formed. We study how macroeconomic conditions when young shape workers' job preferences for the rest of their life. Using variation in income-per-capita across US regions and over time since the 1920s, we find that job preferences vary in systematic ways with macroeconomic conditions.
Socially Useless Jobs
Correction(s) for this article Corrigendum Volume 58Issue 3Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society pages: 543-546 First Published online: June 20, 2019 † The authors’ affiliations are, respectively, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Tinbergen Institute, CESifo, and IZA. E-mail: dur@ese.eur.nl and Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands. E-mail: m.van.lent@law.leidenuniv.nl.
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
Abstract Recent research suggests that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e., that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly anecdotal. We use a representative dataset comprising 100,000 workers from forty‐seven countries at four points in time. We find that approximately 8 percent of workers perceive their job as socially useless, while another 17 percent are doubtful about the usefulness of their job.
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