Economist-NetherlandsPub Date : 2021-01-01Epub Date: 2021-09-20DOI: 10.1007/s10645-021-09393-2
Barbara Baarsma, Jesse Groenewegen
{"title":"Correction to: COVID-19 and the Demand for Online Grocery Shopping: Empirical Evidence from the Netherlands.","authors":"Barbara Baarsma, Jesse Groenewegen","doi":"10.1007/s10645-021-09393-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10645-021-09393-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1007/s10645-021-09389-y.].</p>","PeriodicalId":46156,"journal":{"name":"Economist-Netherlands","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8451741/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39450612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economist-NetherlandsPub Date : 2021-01-01Epub Date: 2021-04-21DOI: 10.1007/s10645-021-09383-4
Wolter H J Hassink, Guyonne Kalb, Jordy Meekes
{"title":"Regional Coronavirus Hotspots During the COVID-19 Outbreak in the Netherlands.","authors":"Wolter H J Hassink, Guyonne Kalb, Jordy Meekes","doi":"10.1007/s10645-021-09383-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10645-021-09383-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We explore the impact of COVID-19 hotspots and regional lockdowns on the Dutch labour market during the outbreak of COVID-19. Using weekly administrative panel microdata for 50 per cent of Dutch employees until the end of March 2020, we study whether individual labour market outcomes, as measured by employment, working hours and hourly wages, were more strongly affected in provinces where COVID-19 confirmed cases, hospitalizations and mortality were relatively high. The evidence suggests that labour market outcomes were negatively affected in all regions and local higher virus case numbers did not reinforce this decline. This suggests that preventive health measures should be at the regional level, isolating hotspots from low-risk areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":46156,"journal":{"name":"Economist-Netherlands","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10645-021-09383-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38906854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economist-NetherlandsPub Date : 2021-01-01Epub Date: 2021-07-07DOI: 10.1007/s10645-021-09389-y
Barbara Baarsma, Jesse Groenewegen
{"title":"COVID-19 and the Demand for Online Grocery Shopping: Empirical Evidence from the Netherlands.","authors":"Barbara Baarsma, Jesse Groenewegen","doi":"10.1007/s10645-021-09389-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10645-021-09389-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There has been a pronounced increase in online shopping since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the effect of the pandemic on demand for online grocery shopping specifically, using municipality-level data from a Dutch online supermarket. We find that an additional hospital admission increased app traffic by 7.3 percent and sales per order by 0.31 percent. Local hospital admissions do not correlate with the variety of groceries ordered, but online search behavior does, suggesting that hoarding behavior is driven by the general perception and impact of the virus rather than local conditions. Local COVID-19 conditions also have different effects in urban versus non-urban municipalities, with local hospital admissions increasing app traffic in urban areas but lowering sales per order as compared to non-urban areas. It remains to be seen whether the demand for online grocery shopping will permanently increase as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10645-021-09389-y.</p>","PeriodicalId":46156,"journal":{"name":"Economist-Netherlands","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8262585/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39178433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economist-NetherlandsPub Date : 2021-01-01Epub Date: 2021-05-31DOI: 10.1007/s10645-021-09384-3
Yulia Titova, Delia Cornea, Sébastien Lemeunier
{"title":"What Factors Keep Cash Alive in the European Union?","authors":"Yulia Titova, Delia Cornea, Sébastien Lemeunier","doi":"10.1007/s10645-021-09384-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10645-021-09384-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper aims to analyze the determinants of cash usage in a selection of European Union (EU) countries over the 2003-2016 period, based on a set of technological, socioeconomic, and socio-cultural indicators and cost components. Our results reveal the existence of both common and region-specific determinants for the EU advanced and Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. In both groups cash usage is determined by payment system characteristics. Additionally, in the EU advanced countries cash usage can also be explained by the level of economic development and income inequalities and proliferation of Internet. In contrast, cash usage in CEE countries is negatively associated with consumer confidence and is inversely related to the technological progress, expressed in terms of mobile users.</p>","PeriodicalId":46156,"journal":{"name":"Economist-Netherlands","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10645-021-09384-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39065594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economist-NetherlandsPub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-04-06DOI: 10.1007/s10645-020-09360-3
Ivan Frankovic, Michael Kuhn, Stefan Wrzaczek
{"title":"On the Anatomy of Medical Progress Within an Overlapping Generations Economy.","authors":"Ivan Frankovic, Michael Kuhn, Stefan Wrzaczek","doi":"10.1007/s10645-020-09360-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10645-020-09360-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We study medical progress within a two-sector economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We characterise the individual optimum and the general equilibrium, and study the impact of a major medical innovation leading to an improvement in the effectiveness of health care. We find that general equilibrium effects dampen strongly the increase in health care usage following medical innovation. Moreover, an increase in savings offsets the negative impact on GDP per capita of a decline in the support ratio. Finally, we show that the reallocation of resources between the final goods and health care sector, following the innovation, plays a crucial role in shaping the general equilibrium impact.</p>","PeriodicalId":46156,"journal":{"name":"Economist-Netherlands","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7319427/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38118321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economist-NetherlandsPub Date : 2018-01-01Epub Date: 2018-05-31DOI: 10.1007/s10645-018-9323-1
Nicola Ciccarelli, Arthur Van Soest
{"title":"Informal Caregiving, Employment Status and Work Hours of the 50+ Population in Europe.","authors":"Nicola Ciccarelli, Arthur Van Soest","doi":"10.1007/s10645-018-9323-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10645-018-9323-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using panel data on the age group 50-70 in 15 European countries, we analyze the effects of providing informal care to parents, parents-in-law, stepparents, and grandparents on employment status and work hours. We account for fixed individual effects and test for endogeneity of caregiving using moments exploiting standard instruments (e.g., parental death) as well as higher-order moment conditions (Lewbel instruments). Specification tests suggest that informal care provision and daily caregiving can be treated as exogenous variables. We find a significant and negative effect of daily caregiving on employment status and work hours. This effect is particularly strong for women. On the other hand, providing care at a weekly (or less than weekly) frequency does not significantly affect paid work. We do not find evidence of heterogeneous effects of caregiving on paid work across European regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":46156,"journal":{"name":"Economist-Netherlands","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10645-018-9323-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37160791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GRADUAL RETIREMENT: PREFERENCES AND LIMITATIONS.","authors":"Tunga Kantarci, Arthur VAN Soest","doi":"10.1007/s10645-008-9086-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10645-008-9086-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the traditional retirement scenario, individuals work full-time or part-time until a given age, and then stop working abruptly. From the individual's point of view, it seems more attractive to have a smooth transition, with gradual retirement. In Sweden and other European countries, specific gradual retirement programs have been created in the past 20 years, first in combination with early retirement programs and later to increase labour market participation of older workers. This paper surveys the existing literature on gradual retirement in the US and Europe and analyzes the relevance of gradual retirement in the Netherlands as a tool to keep people employed longer.</p>","PeriodicalId":46156,"journal":{"name":"Economist-Netherlands","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862495/pdf/nihms-193194.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28966293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Location and competition","authors":"S. Brakman, H. Garretsen","doi":"10.4324/9780203016923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203016923","url":null,"abstract":"List of Figures. List of Tables. Location and Competition: An Introduction 1. Locating Economic Concentration 2. Transport Costs, Location and the Economy 3. Agglomerations in Equilibrium? 4. Policy Competition in Theory and Practice 5. Clustering, Optimum Currency Areas and Macroeconomic Policy. About the Authors","PeriodicalId":46156,"journal":{"name":"Economist-Netherlands","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2005-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76259846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Europe's Demographic Deficit","authors":"H. Sinn","doi":"10.5282/UBM/EPUB.934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5282/UBM/EPUB.934","url":null,"abstract":"Due to exceptionally low birth rates, the dynamism of Europe will be lagging behind that of other regions of the world for the time being. The paper assembles a rich body of comparative empirical data to clarify the extent of the demographic problems for the EU countries. It advances the view that the low birth rates in part result from early government interventions in terms of socializing the fruits of human capital investment via the pay-as-you-go pension system. To mitigate the extent of socialization, it considers a policy of freezing the contribution rates within the existing pensions systems, forcing the childless to save and providing an additional tax-financed \"child pension\" tax to parents.","PeriodicalId":46156,"journal":{"name":"Economist-Netherlands","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82734730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discussion of Accounting for Social and Cultural Values","authors":"E. Damme","doi":"10.1023/A:1020198218839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020198218839","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46156,"journal":{"name":"Economist-Netherlands","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77129814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}