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An Empirical Measure for Labor Market Density

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) "Index for industry concentration". This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...

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Spatial Heterogeneity and the Wage Curve revisited

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

Most ‘wage curve’ studies treat local labour markets as independent ‘islands’ in the national economy. However, when a local labour market is in close proximity of other labour markets, a local shock that increases unemployment may not lead to lower pay rates if employers fear outward...

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How Large are Search Frictions?

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen A. - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

This paper shows that we can normalize job and worker characteristics so that, without frictions,

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Monitoring your Friends, Not your Foes: Strategic Ignorance and the Delegation of Real Authority

Martinez, Silvia Dominguez; Sloof, Randolph; Siemens, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

In this laboratory experiment we study the use of strategic ignorance to delegate real authority within a firm. A worker can gather information on investment projects, while a manager makes the implementation decision. The manager can monitor the worker. This allows her to better exploit the...

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Family Background Variables as Instruments for Education in Income Regressions: A Bayesian Analysis

Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...

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The Economic Effects of a Russia-EU FTA

Manchin, Miriam - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

The paper examines the effects of Russia joining the WTO taking into account energy sector reform and the impact of a future Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the enlarged EU and Russia. The paper uses Computable General Equilibrium Modelling techniques for quantifying the different possible...

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Preferential Trade Arrangements and the Pattern of Production and Trade when Inputs are Differentiated

Francois, Joseph - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This paper is concerned with rules of origin when intermediate goods are differentiated. An analytical model emphasizes trade patterns and the relative importance of trade in intermediates given trade preferences. Econometric evidence based on intra-OECD trade in motor vehicles and motor vehicle...

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Business Cycles, the Current Account, and Administered Protection in Mexico

Francois, Joseph; Niels, Gunnar - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

Antidumping actions in the United States and EU are known to be linked to macroeconomic conditions. In part, this is because positive injury findings may be easier to make in a downturn. We explore the evidence for Mexico, one of the main "new" antidumping using countries. Injury determination...

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Household Inequality, Welfare, and the Setting of Trade Policy

Francois, Joseph; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

-adjusted social welfare functions in a general equilibrium structure mapping from tariff protection to household inequality. This … yields predictions regarding the linkages between trade protection, country characteristics and inequality in Heckscher …

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Political Influence in a New Antidumping Regime: Evidence from Mexico

Francois, Joseph F.; Niels, Gunnar - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

countries subject to antidumping duties and industry-specific factors for sectors receiving protection. Our results are broadly … consistent with the recent theoretical literature on endogenous protection, in terms of both the political costs and the … political benefits of providing protection. They are also in line with the existing empirical literature on antidumping, which …

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