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Herz, Benedikt; Rens, Thijs van - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011

Structural unemployment is due to mismatch between available jobs and workers. We formalize this concept in a simple … costs across segments generate structural unemployment. We estimate the contribution of these costs to fluctuations in US … unemployment, operationalizing segments as states or industries. Most structural unemployment is due to wage bargaining costs …

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Selective hiring and welfare analysis in labor market models

Merkl, Christian; Rens, Thijs van - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011

predictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are much larger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result, optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …

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How important is the intensive margin of labor adjustment?

Rens, Thijs van - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011

Using new quarterly data for hours worked in OECD countries, Ohanian and Raffo (2011) argue that in many OECD countries, particularly in Europe, hours per worker are quantitatively important as an intensive margin of labor adjustment, possibly because labor market frictions are higher than in...

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Skill-biased technological change and the business cycle

Balleer, Almut; Rens, Thijs van - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008

Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased towards skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We construct a quarterly skill premium from the CPS and use it to identify skill-biased technology shocks in a VAR with long-run restrictions....

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Education, growth and income inequality

Teuling, Coen; Rens, Thijs van - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001

Estimates of the e¤ect of education on GDP (the social return to education)have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return. We present a simple explanation that combines two ideas: imperfect substitution between worker types and endogenous skill biased technological...

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Organizational capital and employment fluctuations

Rens, Thijs van - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004

In this paper I present a model in which production requires two types of labor inputs: regular productive tasks and organizational capital, which is accumulated by workers performing organizational tasks. By allocating more workers from organizational to productive tasks, firms can temporarily...

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Wage rigidity and job creation

Haefke, Christian; Sonntag, Marcus; Rens, Thijs van - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2007

Recent research in macroeconomics emphasizes the role of wage rigidity in accounting for the volatility of unemployment …

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The vanishing procyclicality of labor productivity

Galí, Jordi; Rens, Thijs van - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008

We document three changes in postwar US macroeconomic dynamics: (i) the procyclicality of labor productivity has vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real wage has risen. We propose an explanation for all three...

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The colonial origins of Civil War

Djankov, Simeon; Reynal-Querol, Marta - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2007

instead analyze the effect of institutions on civil war, controlling for income per capita. In our set up, institutions are … endogenous and colonial origins affect civil wars through their legacy on institutions. Our results indicate that institutions … civil war. In particular, an improvement in institutions from the median value in the sample to the 75th percentile is …

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