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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137039
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Coordination Frictions and The Financial Crisis
Gautier, Pieter A. - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209434
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209482
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Ethnic Concentration and Human Capital Formation
Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary … externalities created by the influx of immigrants. Second, it presents a stylized model in which human capital accumulation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137380
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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144501
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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-à-vis Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513241
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Wage Dispersion in Russia
Grogan, L.A. - Tinbergen Institute - 1997
This paper examines the extent to which human capital theory can explain observed wage differentials in the Russian Federation. Wage and income dispersion have increased markedly in Russia in the six years since the transition began. Some studies conclude that this is an indicator that Russian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137056