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Spatial heterogeneity and the wage curve revisited

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2004

local labour market is in close proximity of other labour markets, a local shock that increases unemployment may not lead to … lower pay rates if employers fear outward migration of their workers. Hence, the unemployment elasticity of pay will be …

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Industrial transfer policy in China : migration and development

Gerritse, Michiel; Wang, Zhiling; Oort, Frank van - 2024

China's Industrial Transfer Policy (ITP) is a novel place-based development policy of unprecedented scale. The policy targets a set of inland cities aiming to i) grow them in size and ii) restructure them into manufacturing hubs. These cities would eventually relieve pressure in China's coastal...

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Geographical distribution of unemployment : an analysis of provincial differences in Italy

Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Cuffaro, Miranda; Nijkamp, Peter - 2007

Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric … models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment … of unemployment in the 103 provinces of Italy for the years 1998 and 2003. The results suggest that there is a clear …

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The use of spatial filtering techniques : the spatial and space-time structure of German unemployment data

Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - 2006

pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …

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Regional capital no more : how the reform of the territorial government has marginalized Polish middle-sized cities

Cieślak, Borys; Nagler, Paula; Oort, Frank van - 2023

Among Polish cities facing socio-economic difficulties are the former regional capitals which lost their administrative status due to the 1998 reform, reducing the number of regions from 49 to 16. Making use of this quasiexperimental setting, we assess the impact of the loss of administrative...

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The effect of migration on income convergence : meta-analytic evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Poot, Jacques; Nijkamp, Peter - 2009

Using meta-analytical techniques, we focus on 11 studies that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable effect sizes. The data suggest that an increase in the net migration rate of one percentage point increases on...

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Structural estimation of search intensity : do non-employed workers search enough?

Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2007

We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....

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Separations at the firm level

Gautier, Pieter; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999

firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongstlower educated workers and the relatively strong … level of education can notexplain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educatedworkers. We conclude …

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Beyond Okun's law : output growth and labor market flows

Lim, Guay C.; Dixon, Robert J.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2018

This paper studies the relationship between the change in the unemployment rate and output growth using an approach …

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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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