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43
Citations
8946
World Ranking
1953
National Ranking
56

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Joop Hartog is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with notable contributions in several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Education, Political Science and International Relations, and Visual Arts and Performing Arts.

Their research explores multiple interconnected topics, notably:

  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Art History and Market Analysis
  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • Sports Analytics and Performance
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Joop Hartog are:

  • "Fluctuations in the wage gap between vocational and general secondary education: lessons from Portugal," 2021, Journal of Population Economics
  • "Risk and Heterogeneity in Benefits from Vocational Versus General Secondary Education: Estimates for Early and Mature Career Stages in Portugal," 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Other notable papers that align with their research interests, though authored by other researchers within overlapping domains, include:

  • "The Long-Term Fiscal Impact of Immigrants in the Netherlands, Differentiated by Motive, Source Region and Generation," 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "The promise of potential: A study on the effectiveness of jury selection to a prestigious visual arts program," 2022, Kyklos
  • "Starting Wages Respond to EmployerS Risk," 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Joop Hartog frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their main co-authors include:

  • Pedro S. Raposo
  • Hugo Reis
  • J. Beek
  • Gerrit Kreffer
  • Hans Roodenburg

Their publications appear most frequently in the SSRN Electronic Journal, which accounts for multiple works, followed by contributions in venues such as Kyklos and the Journal of Population Economics. Other venues include Animals.

Awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001, Joop Hartog's scholarly record evidences sustained engagement with subjects intersecting social science disciplines and applied economic research.

Best Publications

  • Over-education and earnings: Where are we, where should we go?

    Joop Hartog

  • Linking Measured Risk Aversion to Individual Characteristics.

    Joop Hartog;Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell;Nicole Jonker

  • Low risk aversion encourages the choice for entrepreneurship: An empirical test of a truism

    J.S Cramer;J Hartog;N Jonker;C.M Van Praag

  • Corporatism or Competition?: Labour Contracts, Institutions and Wage Structures in International Comparison

    Coen Teulings;Joop Hartog

  • Education, Allocation and Earnings in the Netherlands: Overschooling?

    Joop Hartog;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • Health, wealth and happiness: Why pursue a higher education?

    Joop Hartog;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? Returns to Cognitive and Social Ability: Entrepreneurs Versus Employees

    Joop Hartog;C. Mirjam van Praag;Justin van der Sluis

  • Changing returns to education in Portugal during the 1980s and early 1990s: OLS and quantile regression estimators

    Joop Hartog;Pedro T. Pereira;José A. C. Vieira

  • Corporatism or Competition

    C. N. Teulings;Joop Hartog

  • Public and private sector wages in the Netherlands

    Joop Hartog;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • The effect of immigration on wages in three european countries

    Aslan Zorlu;Joop Hartog

  • Low Risk Aversion Encourages the Choice for Entrepreneurship:An Empirical Test of a Truism

    Mirjam van Praag;J.S. Cramer;Joop Hartog;Nicole Jonker

  • Overeducation, wages and promotions within the firm

    Sandra Groeneveld;Joop Hartog;Joop Hartog

  • Can students predict starting salaries? Yes!

    Dinand Webbink;Joop Hartog

  • Wages and the bargaining regime in a corporatist setting: the Netherlands

    Joop Hartog;Edwin Leuven;Coen Teulings

  • How important is homeland education for refugees’ economic position in The Netherlands?

    Joop Hartog;Aslan Zorlu

  • Migration and Immigrants: The Case of the Netherlands

    Aslan Zorlu;Joop Hartog

  • Panel data and labor market studies

    Joop Hartog;Geert Ridder;Jules Theeuwes

  • Migration and immigrants: The case of the Netherlands

    Aslan Zorlu;Joop Hartog

  • Earnings risk and demand for higher education: a cross-section test for Spain

    Joop Hartog;Luis Diaz-Serrano

  • On Human Capital and Individual Capabilities

    Joop Hartog

  • The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries

    Joop Hartog;Aslan Zorlu

  • Personal income distribution

    Joop Hartog

Frequent Co-Authors

Hessel Oosterbeek
Hessel Oosterbeek University of Amsterdam
Mirjam van Praag
Mirjam van Praag Copenhagen Business School
Wim Groot
Wim Groot Maastricht University
Rainer Winkelmann
Rainer Winkelmann University of Zurich
Richard B. Freeman
Richard B. Freeman Harvard University
Geert Ridder
Geert Ridder University of Southern California
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Helena Skyt Nielsen Aarhus University
Bernard M.S. van Praag
Bernard M.S. van Praag University of Amsterdam
Roel M. W. J. Beetsma
Roel M. W. J. Beetsma University of Amsterdam

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