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Liya Ma, Weizung Sun, Zhiling Wang, Frank van Oort, in ournal of Regional Science (2026): Attracting Top Talent: Analyzing Local Policies in China With Economists' CV Data Top high‐skilled professionals, such as academics, teachers, doctors, and engineers, play a critical role in driving localized innovation and economic growth. Although extensive research exists on international talent … Continue reading Attracting Top Talent: Analyzing local policies in China with economists’ CV data

Daniel Speldekamp, Joris Knoben & Frank van Oort (2025), "More ways to Rome: The agglomeration and firm productivity relationship through a configurational lens". Chapter 15 in: Martin Anderson, Charlie Karlsson & Sofia Wixe (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Spatial Diversity and Business Economics, pp. 372-393. [download] A recent stream of studies demonstrates that agglomeration heterogeneously … Continue reading More Ways to Rome: The agglomeration and firm productivity relationship through a configurational lens

Marcus Rösch, Michiel Gerritse, Bas Karreman, Frank van Oort & Bart Loog (2025), “Do firms or workers drive the foreign acquisition wage premium?” European Economic Review 178, 105105. [open access] Foreign-acquired firms pay higher wages. The wage gap may arise with worker composition (e.g., sorting of high-quality workers) or firm-level premia (e.g., productivity improvements). We propose a … Continue reading Do workers or firms drive the foreign acquisition wage gap?

Bij het woord welvaart denken veel mensen aan geld. Aan rijke mensen met een goede baan en een groot huis. Maar hoogleraar Frank van Oort vindt dat we anders naar welvaart moeten kijken. Volgens hem kun je welvaart beter zien als kwaliteit van leven. Tijdens de Rotterdamlezing legde hij dit verder uit. https://www.eur.nl/nieuws/gezondheid-en-geluk-horen-ook-bij-welvaart#msdynmkt_trackingcontext=eaddbda9-cf15-422f-9b27-236da2900300

Open access. Mark Thissen, Frank van Oort & Anet Weterings. While many countries introduced regionally differentiated policy measures for Covid-19, such as social distancing, lockdowns and working from home, the Netherlands opted for national binding policies already in the early stages of the pandemic. Using detailed data on the impacts of the first lockdown on … Continue reading The potential benefits of regionally differentiated Covid-19 policies