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Aggregate Real Wages: Macro Fluctuations and Micro Drivers
Daly, Mary C.; Hobijn, Bart; Wiles, Theodore S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
the growth rate of real wages over time. We employ a novel decomposition technique that allowsus to divide the time series … procyclicality islargely offset by the change in the composition of the workforce, leading aggregate real wages to be almost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257608
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Gift Exchange in the Workplace
Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
altruistic managers may offer lower wages and nevertheless build up better social-exchange relationships with their employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257203
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Estimating the Skill Bias in Agglomeration Externalities and Social Returns to Education: Evidence from Dutch Matched Worker-Firm Micro-data
Groot, Stefan P.T.; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
density and productivity and wages has long been established in the economic literature, less is known about the effects of … supply of university graduates on wages, i.e. the social return to education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261931
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Where to go? Workers' Reasons to quit and Intra- versus Interindustry Job Mobility
Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their industry of employment. A bad experience with, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256165
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Starting Wages Respond To Employer's Risk
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education … as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256326
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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-a-vis Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 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/10011256522
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Wages and the Bargaining Regime in a Corporist Setting: The Netherlands
Hartog, Joop; Leuven, Edwin; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
In a corporatist country, of which the Netherlands is an example, wages should not be distinguished by union membership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256615
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Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches
Hartog, Joop; Sattinger, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This paper has resulted in a publication in <I>Labour Economics</I> (2013), 23, 50-56.<P> The paper provides a theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs...</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257366
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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors
Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
make it easier for them to switch employers than for the part-time educated auditors. The predictions on tenure and wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257420
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A Rising Natural Rate of Unemployment: Transitory or Permanent?
Daly, Mary; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegul; Valletta, Robert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
mismatch, extendedunemployment benefits, and uncertainty about overall economic conditions, implies that only asmall fraction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257129