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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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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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Do firms or workers drive the foreign acquisition wage premium?

Rösch, Marcus; Gerritse, Michiel; Karreman, Bas; Oort, … - 2022

We decompose the wage premium after foreign acquisitions of Dutch domestic firms into the constituent firm- and worker-level premia. Firm-level premia grow up to 3.5%, accounting for the majority of the acquisition premium. Worker-level premia by contrast, grow up to 1% and only materialize with...

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Down-side risk metrics as portfolio diversification strategies across the GFC

Allen, David E.; McAleer, Michael; Powell, Robert; … - 2015

This paper features an analysis of the effectiveness of a range of portfolio diversi cation strategies, with a focus on down-side risk metrics, as a portfolio diversification strategy in a European market context. We apply these measures to a set of daily arithmetically compounded returns on a...

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The effect of growth and inequality in incomes on health inequality : theory and empirical evidence from the European panel

Van Ourti, Tom; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; Koolman, Xander - 2006

Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using ….Keywords:income inequality, health inequality, income elasticity of health, Europe. …

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Employment assimilation of immigrants in the Netherlands : catching up and the irrelevance of education

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2008

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Homeownership and labour market behaviour : interpreting the evidence

Rouwendal, Jan; Nijkamp, Peter - 2008 - This version: November 3, 2008

This paper reviews the empirical research that has been generated by Oswald’s thesis, which claims that there is a causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general...

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Optimal government spending and unemployment

Linnemann, Ludger; Schabert, Andreas - 2008 - This version: February 29, 2008

We study optimal government spending in a business cycle model with frictional unemployment. The Ramsey optimal policy is contrasted with a reference policy which would be first best in a frictionless economy. Results are: the Ramsey policy i) implies a higher steady state ratio of government...

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Imports as product and labour market discipline

Boulhol, Hervé; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Maioli, Sara - 2008

This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labour markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...

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