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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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Employment choices and pay differences between non-standard and standard work in Britain, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden

Gustafsson, Siv S.; Kenjoh, Eiko; Wetzels, Cécile M. M. P. - 2001

, GSOEP for Germany, OSA for the Netherlands and HUS for Sweden.The reason for analysing and comparing four countries is an … women in the other three countries. Similarly the probabilityof being self employed for men in Sweden is much higher than in … the other three countries. Furthermorewe find part-time workers relatively better paid in Sweden and the Netherlands than …

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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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Employment choices and pay differences between non-standard and standard work in Britain, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden

Gustafsson, Siv S.; Kenjoh, Eiko; Wetzels, Cécile M. M. P. - 2001

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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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Search friction in the US labor market

Bowlus, Audra J.; Seitz, Shannon N. - 1998 - Current Version: August 1998

In this paper we determine the feasibility of using data from thePanel Study of Income Dynamics to estimate the Burdett-Mortensengeneral equilibrium search model. The data contain sufficientinformation on wages, labor force states, durations, and transitionsto generate estimates of the model's...

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