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International assortative matchingin the European labor market

Peeters, Thomas; Ours, Jan C. van - 2022

We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high …

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Sources of growth : the entrepreneurial versus the managed economy

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1997

The purpose of this paper is to suggest that a fundamental shift in Europe, along with the other OECD countries, is …

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Empirical evaluation of broader job search requirements for unemployed workers

Klaauw, Bas van der; Vethaak, Heike - 2022

This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However,...

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A social network analysis of occupational segregation

Buhai, Sebastian; Leij, Marco van der - 2006

This paper proposes a simple social network model of occupational segregation, generated by the existence of inbreeding bias among individuals of the same social group. If network referrals are important in getting a job, then expected inbreeding bias in the social structure results in different...

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What goes up sometimes stays up : shocks and institutions as determinants of unemployment persistence

Amisano, Gianni; Serati, Massimiliano - 2002

We analyse the determinants of unemployment persistence in four OECDcountries byestimating a structural Bayesian VAR with an informative priorbased on an insiders/outsiders model. We explicitly insert unemployment ben-efits and labour taxes so that our identification is not affected by the Faust...

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What goes up sometimes stays up : shocks and institutions as determinants of unemployment persistence

Amisano, Gianni; Serati, Massimiliano - 2002

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Your next of kin or your own career? : caring and working among the 50+ of Europe

Bolin, Kristian; Lindgren, Björn; Lundborg, Per - 2007

outcomes of providing informal care to one’s elderly parent(-s) among the 50+ of Europe. Data from SHARE (Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe) was used to examine the association between, on the one hand, hours of informal care … and the number of hours worked, respectively, of informal-care provision was found to be stronger in central Europe than …

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Comparitive performance analysis of European airports by means of extended data envelopment analysis

Suzuki, Soushi; Nijkamp, Peter; Pels, Eric; Rietveld, Piet - 2009

– with a DFM and an FF component - will be applied to a comparative performance analysis of several major airports in Europe …

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Self-employment around retirement age

Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2010 - Second draft. July 2010

This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...

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Modelling and estimating modal share in European transport

Russo, Giovanni; Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Peter - 2001

International and interregional trade and transport are on the rise and hence, there is a clear needfor reliable estimates of transport flows. However, the available databases and estimation methodsare not yet satisfactory for analytical and predictive purposes.In this paper we explore the use...

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