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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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Compensation of Regional Unemployment in Housing Markets
Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
-0335.2007.00664.x/abstract">'Economica'</A>, 2008, 76(301), 71-88.<P> Why are regional unemployment differentials in Europe so … in high-unemployment regions are compensated in housing markets. Modelling regional unemployment differentials as a … low-unemployment regions in general equilibrium. The compensating differentials hypothesis is tested on city-level data …
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Search and the City
Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, P.A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
We develop a model of an economy with several regions, which differ in scale. Within each region, workers have to search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255840
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Homeownership and Labour Market Behaviour: Interpreting the Evidence
Rouwendal, Jan; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on … geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general confirm that homeowners have longer unemployment spells or higher … unemployment rates. Even though this finding is related to heterogeneity in the labour force and associated selectivity effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257004
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Search Theory and Commuting Behavior
Rouwendal, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In this paper I argue that search theory is a useful addition to the way economists and geographers have approached the study of commuting behavior. This is illustrated by showing that introduction of a spatial element into the standard model of job search leads to the prediction of critical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257065
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The Use of Spatial Filtering Techniques: The Spatial and Space-time Structure of German Unemployment Data
Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255516
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Geographical Distribution of Unemployment: An Analysis of Provincial Differences in Italy
Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Cuffaro, Miranda; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric … models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment … of unemployment in the 103 provinces of Italy for the years 1998 and 2003. The results suggest that there is a clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256668
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Spatial Heterogeneity and the Wage Curve revisited
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
local labour market is in close proximity of other labour markets, a local shock that increases unemployment may not lead to … lower pay rates if employers fear outward migration of their workers. Hence, the unemployment elasticity of pay will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256886
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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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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