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Unemployment, Growth and the Organisation of Work

Groot, Henri L.F. de; Schaik, Anton B.T.M. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

We develop a two-sector endogenous growth model with a dual labour market resulting from the presence of an effort extraction function in one sector. Effort of workers can be influenced by pay and monitoring. This results in an endogenous non-competitive wage differential between sectors and a...

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Who values the Status of the Entrepreneur?

Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … be expected and respect. Furthermore, our results imply that entrepreneurship is associated with hard work, high incomes …

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

Gautier, Pieter A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

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

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An Experimental Investigation of Wage Taxation and Unemployment in Closed and Open Economies

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Instituut

We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed economy and an international economy. The main findings are the following. (i) There is clear evidence of a vicious circle in the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and...

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Sorting and the Output Loss due to Search Frictions

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

We analyze a general search model with on-the-job search and sorting of heterogeneous workers into heterogeneous jobs. This model yields a simple relationshipbetween (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) themax-mean wage differential. The latter measure of wage...

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Insurance, Entrepreneurial Start-Up, and Performance

Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary...

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Spatial Activity and Labour Market Patterns

Russo, Giovanni; Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

The spatial activity patterns of firms in a multi-regional system are closely connected with the structure and evolution of regional labour markets. Based on an extensive data set (cross-section) on commuting flows in Germany, this paper aims to identify the relationship between entrepreneurial...

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Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle

Koellinger, P.D.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut

. This contradicts existing theoretical hypotheses which predict that entrepreneurship is pro-cyclical or not cyclical. We …

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Is More Entrepreneurship better?

Koellinger, Philipp; Roessler, Christian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

We develop a new perspective on the boundary of the firm that is consistent with the empirical observation that the share of entrepreneurs first decreases and then increases in the course of economic development. Existing theory based on transaction costs is difficult to relate to these...

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Business Ownership and Unemployment in Japan

Acht, Joost van; Stam, Joop; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of …

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