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Getting Behind the East-West [German] Wage Differential: Theory and Evidence

Burda, Michael C.; Schmitd, Christoph M. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1997

Labor markets are the most important mediator of German unification and wages are a central indicator of its progress. Starting from the observation that a wage differential between two workers can arise either because workers have different endowments of human capital characteristics or...

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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....

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Compensation of On-call and Fixed-term Employment: the Role of Uncertainty

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

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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The Gender Wage Gap in Bulgaria: A Semiparametric Estimation of Discrimination

Jolliffe, Dean - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001

, nationally representative Bulgaria Integrated Household Survey, I examine whether gender discrimination is an important factor … determining the gap in wages between men and women and the extent to which gender discrimination affects wage inequality. I model … of this differential is due to discrimination, or more precisely, due to differences in how men and women are rewarded …

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On the Identification of the Costs of Simultaneous Search

Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose L.; Sandor, Zsolt; Wildenbeest, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

This paper studies the identification of the costs of simultaneous search in a class of (portfolio) problems studied by Chade and Smith (2006). We show that aggregate data from a single market, or disaggregate data from a single market segment, do not provide sufficient information to identify...

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The Desire for Impact

Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

unemployment. …

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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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