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Ommeren, Jos van; Vlist, Arno van der; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9787.2006.00448.x/abstract">'Journal of Regional Science'</A>, 2006, 46(3), 493-506. Fringe benefits of various kinds have become an essential element of modern labour market mechanisms. Firms offer transport-related fringe benefits such as transport subsidies (company...</a>

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Dismissals for Cause:The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make

Martins, Pedro S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper provides evidence about the effects of dismissals-for-cause requirements, aspecific component of employment protection legislation that has received little attentiondespite its potential relevance. We study a quasi-natural experiment generated by a lawintroduced in Portugal in 1989:...

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Cognitive Capital and Islands of Innovation: The Lucas Growth Model from a Regional Perspective

Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper led to an article in Regional Studies (2014). Volume 48, issue 4, pages 624-645. Knowledge triggers regional growth. Evidence suggests that skilled labour force concentrates in islands of innovation, determining an advantage for innovative regions and a challenge for...

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Continuous-Time Modelling with Spatial Dependence

Oud, Johan H.L.; Folmer, Henk; Patuelli, Roberto; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

in regional average wage and change in the structure of the manufacturing sector. …

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From Islands to Hubs of Innovation: Connecting Innovative Regions

Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper enters the debate on the islands of innovation through the lens of the standard Lucas (1988) growth model. It begins with a review of the theoretical details of the model and of the ensuing main empirical results, which can be identified when estimating such model on a sample of 261...

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Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More:Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels

Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer … set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable characteristics to the wage gap, and (ii) by controlling for … firm size and sales are, todifferent extents, important components of the wage gap both for exporters and importers …

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Foreign Ownership, Employment and Wages in Brazi l: Evidence from Acquisitions, Divestments and Job Movers

Martins, Pedro S.; Esteves, Luiz A. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data... …

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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages

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

labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated effect of immigration on the wage of native workers varies widely from … eighteen papers_new, which altogether generated 348 estimates of the percentage change in the wage of a native worker with …

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The Last Word on the Wage Curve?

Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

rates has been found. Following Blanchflower and Oswald (1990), this relationship is referred to as the wage curve. The … elasticity of this wage curve has been reported to be so similar across studies, at a level of about -0.1, that Card (1995 …) called it an "empirical law of economics". However, there is considerable heterogeneity among wage curve studies. This paper …

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Economic Impacts of Cultural Diversity in the Netherlands: Productivity, Utility, and Sorting

Bakens, Jessie; Mulder, Peter; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This discussion paper resulted in an article in the Journal of Regional Science (2013). Volume 53, issue 1, pages 8-36. This paper identifies the role of cultural diversity in explaining spatial disparities in wages and housing prices across Dutch cities, using unique individual panel data of...

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