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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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Sorting and the Output Loss due to Search Frictions

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion for the US is consistent with an unemployment rate of 4 …

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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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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 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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