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receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …
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to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …
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lack of compensating differentials for unemployment risk can arise in equilibrium when all workers are identical and firms … differ only in job security (i.e. the probability that the worker is not sent into unemployment). In a setting where workers … risky tail of the distribution of firm-level unemployment risk. Meanwhile, unemployment becomes persistent for low-wage and …
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In this paper I analyse the use and compensation of fixed-term and on-call employment contracts in the Netherlands. I use an analytical framework in which wage differentials result from two types of uncertainty. Quantity uncertainty originates from imperfect foresight in future product demand. I...
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’ of the decline in native-born employment following a 1 percent increase in the number of immigrants is a mere 0 …
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immigrants, especially if one meets (non-western) foreigners at work and school. Contact with foreigners while going out … decreases the preference for immigrants. The ethnic composition of the neighbourhood in which one lives does not ex! ert a …
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for an employer to give workers autonomy in effort or task choice, and can propagate shocks to unemployment. …
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unemployment. …
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Based on micro-data on individual workers for the period 2000-2005, we show that wage differentials in the Netherlands are small but present. A large part of these differentials can be attributed to individual characteristics of workers. Remaining effects are partially explained by variations in...
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