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The Economics of Co-ethnic Employment; Incentives, Welfare Effects and Policy Options

Butter, Frank A.G. den; Masurel, Enno; Mosch, Robert - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

and norms, and less unemployment and social security problems for society. In the long run, co-ethnic employment might …

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Ethnic Concentration and Human Capital Formation

Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary … externalities created by the influx of immigrants. Second, it presents a stylized model in which human capital accumulation and …

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Strikes in France and the Netherlands; A Comparison of Labour Market Institutions

Butter, Frank A.G. den; Koppes, Silvie Y. - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

Strikes as a consequence of labour conflicts occur about 28 times as much in France as in the Netherlands. This paper examines the institutional differences underlying these differences in strike activity. Our empirical analysis shows that strike activity is high in France if workers were...

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A Cointegration Model for Search Equilibrium Wage Formation

Broersma, L.; Butter, Frank A.G. den; Kock, Udo - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

flows on wage formation as alternative to the traditional specification of wage equations where unemployment represents the …

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Regional Wage Differences in the Netherlands: Micro-Evidence on Agglomeration Externalities

Groot, Stefan P.T. de; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Smit, Martijn - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

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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Unemployment, Growth and the Organisation of Work

Groot, Henri L.F. de; Schaik, Anton B.T.M. van - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

by investments in R&D performed in the high-wage sector. Unemployment is determined by the costs and benefits of waiting … for a high-paid job. The wage structure, growth, and unemployment are shown to depend on the way effort is extracted. …

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