Dr. Yolanda K. Grift
 

E-mail:      Y.Grift@econ.uu.nl

Phone:     +31(0)30-2537112 / 9800

Fax:         +31(0)30-2537373

Room:      307

Address:   Utrecht School of Economics (USE)

                Utrecht University

                Vredenburg 138

                NL - 3511 BG Utrecht

                The Netherlands

 
Current position Assistant professor at the Department of Econometrics

 
Research interests
  • Time allocation of partners in the household
  • Labour supply, esp. the influence of institutions like tax and social security systems (microsimulation models)
  • Household time allocation models, a.o. collective models
  • Labour market and housing market
  • Law and Economics, esp. quantitative analyses on crime, traffic, health, etc.
  • Microeconometrics

 
Teaching experience Undergraduated level: Econometrics, Mathematics and Statistics, Labour economics, Micro economics, General economics

Graduated level: Econometrics, Labour Economics, Theory and methods of Law and Economics

 
Memberships
  • Fellow Tjalling C. Koopmans Institute, USE
  • Member Board Undergraduate School, USE
  • Fellow Arbeid, markt en sociaal beleid (AMSB, OSP3)
  • Koninklijke Vereniging voor de Staathuishoudkunde
  • European Society for Population Economics
  • Treasurer FENN, Feminist Economic Network in the Netherlands

 
Education
  • Secondary education (year of completion): Atheneum-B (1977)
  • Doctoral exam in Econometrics

Department of Econometrics, University of Amsterdam

Year of completion: 1985
  • Ph.D. in Economics

Department of Economics, Faculty of Law, Utrecht University

Title: Female labour supply. The influence of taxes and social premiums

(Promotors: Prof. Dr. J.J. Siegers and Prof. Dr. C.K.F Nieuwenburg)

Year of completion: Februar 11, 1998

 
Professional career 1983 - 1984     Student assistant, Department of Economics, Faculty of Law

1985 - 1987     Ph.D. student, Department of Economics, Faculty of Law

1988 - 2002     Assistant professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Law

2003 -              Assistant professor, Utrecht School of Economics

 
Published in Applied Economics, European Journal of Population Economics, De Economist, Kwantitatieve Methoden, Sociaal Maandblad Arbeid, Economisch Statistische Berichten

 
Contract research done for Organisation of Labour Market Issues (OSA), Ministery of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW), Commissie Onderzoek Sociale Zekerheid (COSZ), Ministery of Finance (Financiën), Ministery of Housing, Spatial Affairs and Envirenment (VROM), Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau (SCP), SWOKA

 
Selected publications Kène Henkens, Yolanda Grift, Jacques Siegers, The labour supply of married and cohabiting women in the Netherlands: 1989-1998, European Journal of Population Economics, 2002

A. van den Berg, Y.K. Grift, Union membership in the Netherlands, Applied Economics, 2001

Y.K. Grift, Female labour supply. The influence of taxes and social premiums, Dissertatie, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, februari 1998

Yolanda K. Grift, Jacques J. Siegers, Supply determinants of part-time work of Dutch married women: the influence of taxes and social premiums, Applied Economics, vol. 25, 1993, pp. 1153-1160.

Y.K. Grift, J.J. Siegers, Het aanbod van arbeid door individuen en huishoudens in Nederland: wat heeft vijftien jaar onderzoek opgeleverd?, Maandschrift Economie, vol. 56, nr. 3, 1992, pp. 248-270

Y.K. Grift, The excess burden of the tax and social premium system for Dutch married women, De Economist, vol. 136, nr. 2, 1988

 
Publications

 
Curriculum Vitae (in Dutch)