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Sorting and the Output Loss due to Search Frictions
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
. This model yields a simple relationshipbetween (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii … andallow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for theUS is consistent with an unemployment rate of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257030
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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment in Japan
Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid; Baljeu, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257561
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Lifetime Labor Supply in a Search Model of Unemployment
Bettendorf, Leon J.H.; Broer, D. Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255879
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256288
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Business Cycles and Compositional Variation in U.S. Unemployment
Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997
In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257090
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Social Interactions in Unemployment
Lalive, Rafael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257193
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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 … openings, the U.S. unemployment rate has not declined in line with the Beveridge curve. We decompose the recent deviation from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255728
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The Attractiveness of Temporary Employment to Reduce Adjustment Costs
Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
In this paper I determine the importance of adjustment costs in employers hiring decisions. Temporary work arrangements offer potential ways to avoid adjustment costs. I estimate employers willingness to pay for the characteristics of these work arrangements. I distinguish regular contracts,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256425
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Job Search Requirements for Older Unemployed: Transitions to Employment, Early Retirement and Disability Benefits
Bloemen, Hans; Hochguertel, Stefan; Lammers, Marloes - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014292112001493">'European Economic Review'</A> 2013, 58, 31-57.<P> In this paper, we use a recent policy change in the Netherlands to study how changes in search requirements for the older unemployed affect their transition rates to employment, early retirement...</p></a>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255905
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Vocational Training: Does it speed up the Transition Rate out of Unemployment?
Cockx, Bart; Bardoulat, Isabelle - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
transition out of unemployment. We show that rationing of the demand for training increases theunemployment duration of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255979