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The Power of a Bad Example - A Field Experiment in Household Garbage Disposal

Dur, Robert; Vollaard, Ben - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Field-experimental studies have shown that people litter more in more littered environments. Inspired by these findings, many cities around the world have adopted policies to quickly remove litter. While such policies may prevent people from following the bad example of litterers, they may also...

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The Impact of Matching Mission Preferences on Well-being at Work

Zoutenbier, Robin - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

A recent literature in economics assumes that workers differ in their mission preferences. These studies predict a premium on the matching of mission preferences between a worker and employer. This paper uses data from the Dutch LISS panel to examine this prediction for government workers....

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Models as Measuring Instruments

Rodenburg, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

- provided the models is calibrated - this suffice for measurement. This paper explores this construction of a measuring device … in models by analysing the measurement of duration dependence of unemployment. Since search theory can’t be made … measurement to take place by modelling behaviour according to some assumptions, which operate as constraints. While this Weibull …

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Which Industries are shifting the Beveridge Curve?

Barnichon, Regis; Elsby, Michael; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

The negative relationship between the unemployment rate and the job openings rate, known as the Beveridge curve, has been relatively stable in the U.S. over the last decade. Since the summer of 2009, in spite of firms reporting more job openings, the U.S. unemployment rate has not declined in...

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Tracing the Changing Measures of Unemployment in Dutch Unemployment Statistics 1900-1940

Rodenburg, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

In the period before the second World War, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics had developed two sets of indicators ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one on statistical data of labour exchanges. This paper...

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Economic Impacts of Cultural Diversity in the Netherlands: Productivity, Utility, and Sorting

Bakens, Jessie; Mulder, Peter; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

interactions-based productivity, consumption amenities and sorting of heterogeneous home owners while controlling for interactions …

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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies

Berg, Gerard J. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with wage setting, search frictions, and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after...

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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … are more dispersed in the Netherlands. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …

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Production Externalities in the Wood Furniture Industry in Central Java

Andadari, Roos K.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This paper exploits micro firm level data to examine the impact of spatial clustering and links to foreign buyer networks on firm performance in the wood furniture industry in Central Java, Indonesia. The analysis is based on an annual manufacturing survey. We identify the impact of...

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Testing for Marginal Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment

Altomonte, Carlo; Pennings, Enrico - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

simultaneity bias in productivity estimates through semi-parametric techniques, we find that changes in domestic firms’ TFP are …

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