Bücher von Joop Hartog

Presents a historical perspective on the development of population density in The Netherlands, offering a broad survey of the conventional approach to measuring immigration¿s effects and also considering better measures of welfare and providing a detailed description and evaluation of policies - rules, regulations and implementation.

Focuses exclusively on the risk that is associated with investing in education. In a well organised framework, this monograph surveys the modest literature, identifies and explains the weakest aspects of knowledge in the field, reflects on policy issues, and presents an agenda for future research.

While many interesting analytical and empirical results followed, there was also an indication from empirical testing that an earnings function linear in capabilities could be outperformed by a non-linear func- 2 CAPABILITIES, ALLOCATION AND EARNINGS tion, and that the arbitrage assumption might be un tenable.