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Identification of 'Wasteful Commuting' using Search Theory

Ommeren, Jos Van; Straaten, Willemijn Van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

In this paper, we employ search theory as a micro-economic foundation for the wasteful commuting hypothesis. It is argued that the commute of the self-employed is the result of a search process for vacant workplaces, whereas employees search for vacant jobs through space. Because the arrival...

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Marriage and the City

Gautier, Pieter A.; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities

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The Commuting Distribution

Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

condition is that space is two-dimensional. Furthermore, one of the following ingredients is sufficient: on-the-job mobility …, spatially-differentiated search or heterogeneity ofjobs. Residential mobility does not appear to explain the shape of the …

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Sin City?

Gautier, Pieter A.; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors

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

In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...

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Working Hours Flexibility and Older Workers' Labor Supply

Gielen, A. C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

This paper studies the presence of hours constraints on the UK labor market and its effect on older workers labor supply, both at the extensive and the intensive margin. Using panel data for the period 1991-2004, the results from a competing risks model show that over-employed male workers can...

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Separations at the Firm Level

van Ours, Jan; Gautier, P.A.; van den Berg, G.; Ridder, G. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …

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Mobility in the Urban Labor Market : A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico

van soest, arthur; Gong, X.; Villagomez, E. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the …

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