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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...

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The Effect of Job Satisfaction on Job Search: Not just whether, but also where

Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

Using survey data of public sector employees in the Netherlands, this paper shows that workers' satisfaction with various job domains not only affects whether but also where workers search for another job. An intuitive pattern emerges. Workers try to leave their current employer when their job...

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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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Collective versus Decentralized Wage Bargaining and the Efficient Allocation of Resources

Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter A.; Watanabe, Makoto - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

An advantage of collective wage agreement is that search and business-stealing externalities can be internalized. A disadvantage is that it takes more time before an optimal allocation is reached because more productive firms (for a particular worker type) can no longer signal this by posting...

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Labor Market Matching under Imperfect Information

Willems, Tim - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

Recent research has shown that the standard labor matching model hasdifficulties in reproducing the co-movement patterns observed in US data. Thisis due to the fact that the standard model lacks sufficient propagation of shocks.This paper shows that refining the informational structure of the...

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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment in Japan

Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid; Baljeu, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership 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...

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Determinants of Enterprise restructuring in Transition: Description of a Survey in Russian Industry

Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

To achieve sustainable economic growth in transition countries, it is crucial that enterpriseperformance is improved … restructuring, ownership,competition, budget constraints and, particularly, institutions in Russian industry, covering theperiod … assessment of formal andinformal institutions respectively, and largely the same ruling networks as before the start of …

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