1998 : Corporatism or competition? Labour contracts, institutions and wage structures in international comparison, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with C.N. Teulings)
2007 :Human Capital, Advances in Theory and Evidence, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, editor, with H. Maassen van den Brink; paperback edition 2009
2021 :Grenzeloze Verzorgingsstaat, de gevolgen van immigratie voor de overheidsfinanciën, Jan van de Beek, Hans Roodenburg, Joop Hartog, Gerrit Kreffer, Zeist: demo-demo uitgever
Are starting wages reduced by an insurance premium for preventing wage decline? Testing the prediction of Harris and Holmstrom (1982), Labour Economics, 48, 105-119, with P. Raposo
Mincer Earnings Functions for the Netherlands 1962–2012, De Economist, 164 (3), 235-253), with S.Gerritsen
Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance: Does more schooling reduce earnings risk? Labour Economics, 24 (), 323-338, with J. Mazza and H. van Ophem
Risk Attitude and Wage Growth, Replicating Shaw (1996), Empirical Economics, 44 (2), 981-1004, with S. Budria, L. Diaz and A. Ferrer
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you an entrepreneur? Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 19 (4), 947-989, with Mirjam van Praag and Justin van der Sluis
How important is homeland education for refugees’ economic position in The Netherlands? Journal of Population Economics, 22 (1), 219-246, with A. Zorlu
Compensating Wage Differentials for Schooling Risk in Denmark, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 110 (4), 711-731, with L. Diaz Serrano and H. Skyt Nielsen
Comparing migrants to non-migrants: the case of Dutch migration to New Zealand, Journal of Population Economics 16 (3), pp. 683-705, with R. Winkelmann
Wages and the bargaining regime in a corporatist setting: The Netherlands, European Journal of Political Economy, 18, pp. 317-331, with E. Leuven and C. Teulings
Low risk aversion encourages the choice for entrepreneurship: an empirical test of a truism,Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 48, pp. 29-36, with J.S. Cramer, N. Jonker and C.M. van Praag
Over-education and earnings: where are we, where should we go?, Economics of Education Review, 19 (2), pp. 131-147
Turkish clothing in Amsterdam: the rise and fall of a perfectly competitive labour market, De Economist, 147 (2), pp. 151-181, with A. Zorlu
:If we knew ability, how would we tax individuals? Journal of Public Economics, 72 (2), pp.183-211, with E. Plug and B. van Praag
Job complexity and wages, International Economic Review, 34(4), pp. 853-872, with H. van Ophem and W. Vijverberg
The emergence of the working wife in Holland, Journal of Labor Economics, 3,1 (part 2), Supplement Trends in Women’s work, Education and Family Building, S235-S255, with J. Theeuwes
Earnings and capability requirements, Review of Economics and Statistics, LXII (2), pp. 230- 240
Dutch treat: long-run changes in personal income distribution, De Economist, 126 (4), pp. 521- 549, with J.G. Veenbergen