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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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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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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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Strategic Wage Setting and Coordination Frictions with Multiple Applications

Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-González, José L. - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

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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Matching with Multiple Applications

Albrecht, James W.; Gautier, Pieter A.; Vroman, Susan B. - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

We analyze the implications of multiple applications by job seekers for the microfoundations of the matching function. We emphasize a coordination failure caused by multiple applications, namely, that firms can waste resources processing applicants who are ultimately hired elsewhere.

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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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