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to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …
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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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In this note I argue that the desirability of fiscal policy in response to the current crisis depends on whether one views the current crisis as a temporary deviation from a unique equilibrium or as a bad equilibrium out of multiple equilibria. The paper presents a simple Diamond (1982) type of...
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where workers apply for just one job exhibits unemployment and absence of wage dispersion; (ii) an equilibrium where workers … apply for two or for more (but not for all) jobs always exhibits wage dispersion and, typically, unemployment; (iii) the … equilibrium wage distribution with a higher vacancy-to-unemployment ratio first-order stochastically dominates the wage …
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’ of the decline in native-born employment following a 1 percent increase in the number of immigrants is a mere 0 …
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immigrants, especially if one meets (non-western) foreigners at work and school. Contact with foreigners while going out … decreases the preference for immigrants. The ethnic composition of the neighbourhood in which one lives does not ex! ert a …
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unemployment. …
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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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