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Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the...

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Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance

Gautier, Pieter; Muller, Paul; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there areno spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that thisassumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers.Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...

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Starting Wages Respond to Employer´s Risk

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Firms hiring fresh graduates face uncertainty on the future productivity of workers. Intuitively,one expects starting wages to reflect this. Formal analysis supports the intuition...

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Starting Wages Respond To Employer's Risk

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

Firms hiring fresh graduates face uncertainty on the future productivity of workers. Theory suggests that starting wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that...

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Wages and the Bargaining Regime in a Corporist Setting: The Netherlands

Hartog, Joop; Leuven, Edwin; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

In a corporatist country, of which the Netherlands is an example, wages should not be distinguished by union membership status, but by the bargaining regime. Four bargaining regimes can be distinguished: (i) company level bargaining, (ii) industry level bargaining, (iii) mandatory extension of...

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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling provide Earnings Insurance?

Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...

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If you are so smart, why aren't you an Entrepreneur?

Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

? Our individual fixed-effects estimates of the differential returns to ability for spells in entrepreneurship versus wage …

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Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches

Hartog, Joop; Sattinger, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences of overeducation and … undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage penalties relative to workers … required for their jobs earn wage rewards. These departures from the Mincer human capital earnings function can be explained by …

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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors

Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we expect higher wage growth for full-time educated auditors than for dual …

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Labor Market Prospects, Search Intensity and the Transition from College to Work

Klaauw, Bas van der; Vuuren, Aico van; Berkhout, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

. Our estimation results show that a 1 percent point decrease in unemployment rate increases wage offers with 3 percent …

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