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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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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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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience

Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...

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Unemployment and Search Externalities in a Model with Heterogeneous Jobs and Heterogeneous Workers

Gautier, Pieter A. - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

This discussion paper has resulted in an article in 'Economica', 2002, 69(273), 21-40.

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On-the-Job Search and Sorting

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

See 'On-The-Job Search, Mismatch and Efficiency', forthcoming in the 'Review of Economic Studies'.

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The Value of an Educated Population for an Individual's Entrepreneurship Success

Millan, Jose Maria; Congregado, Emilio; Roman, Concepcion; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance. The entrepreneur's human capital is, though, only one of the input factors into the production process of her venture. The value of other input factors, such as (knowledge)...

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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Return to Education in Vietnam: Wage versus Employment Effect

Oostendorp, Remco H.; Quang, Doan Hong - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we … trade liberalization on the return to education taking into account both changes in wages and employment. The results show …

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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

resulting in economic costs, particularly with respect to wages and employment opportunities of the native born. This warrants a …’ of the decline in native-born employment following a 1 percent increase in the number of immigrants is a mere 0 ….024 percent. However, the impact is somewhat larger on female than on male employment. The negative employment effect is also …

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Technology Adoption Subsidies: An Experiment with Managers

Aalbers, Rob; Heijden, Eline van der; Potters, Jan; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

We evaluate the impact of technology adoption subsidies on in- vestment behavior in an individual choice experiment. In a laboratory setting professional managers are confronted with an intertemporal decision problem in which they have to decide whether or not to search for, and possibly adopt,...

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What explains the Variation in Estimates of Labour Supply Elasticities?

Evers, Michiel; Mooij, Ruud A. de; Vuuren, Daniel J. van - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

This paper performs a meta-analysis of empirical estimates of uncompensated labour supply elasticities. We find that much of the variation in elasticities can be explained by the variation in gender, participation rates, and country fixed effects. Country differences appear to be small though....

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