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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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Wages and Employment in a Random Social Network with Arbitrary Degree Distribution

Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

otherwise identical workers result in wage inequality and differences in unemployment rates. The paper is related to theoretical … wage on average and face a lower unemployment rate. Numerical computations for the specific case in which connections …

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

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

to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …

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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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Car ownership and the Labor Market of Ethnic Minorities

Gautier, Pieter A.; Zenou, Yves - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous … equilibrium, blacks end up with both higher unemployment rates and lower wages than whites. Furthermore, it takes more time for …

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Do Stepping Stone Jobs exist? Early Career Paths in the Medical Profession

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

becoming junior medical specialist. To deal with selectivity, we simultaneously model the transitions from unemployment to … trainee, from unemployment to medical assistant, from medical asistant to trainee and from medical assistant to unemployment …

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The Fallacy of “Job Robbing”: A Meta-Analysis of Estimates of the Effect of Immigration on Employment

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

’ 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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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

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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The Duration of Unemployment in Russia

Grogan, Louise; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

This paper uses longitudinal survey data to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment in Russia. We examine … remarkably similar across the different unemployment definitions and model specifications. Therefore, despite the formidable …

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The Desire for Impact

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

unemployment. …

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