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Lifetime Labor Supply in a Search Model of Unemployment
Bettendorf, Leon J.H.; Broer, D. Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation andunemployment by integrating job search with intertemporal optimizing behaviorof finitely-lived households. We find that search frictions and tax ratesdistort the decisions of older workers to a much larger extent than that ofyoung...
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Insurance and Rural Welfare: What can Panel Data tell us?
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Pan, Lei - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
insurance in rural communities usually requires a structural model of household behavior under risk. One of the few empirical … would not benefit from the introduction of formal weather insurance. In this paper we investigate how models such as theirs … conclusion that insurance would not be welfare improving. …
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Risk Sharing in Labour Markets
Bigsten, Arne; Collier, Paul; Dercon, Stefan; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
insurance to employers: when firms are hit by temporary shocks the effect on profits is cushioned by risk sharing with workers …
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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...
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Wages and Employment in a Random Social Network with Arbitrary Degree Distribution
Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
This discussion paper resulted in an article in the 'American Economic Review' (2006). Volume 96, issue 2, pages 270-274.<P> Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage...</p>
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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
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Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments
Albrecht, James; Vuuren, Aico van; Vroman, Susan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyzethe gender gap between men and women who work full time in the Nether-lands. Because the fraction of women working full time in the Netherlands isquite low, sample selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257638
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Insurance, Entrepreneurial Start-Up, and Performance
Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start … up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is … UI choice process. Results show that the causal effect of insurance on the probability of starting up a venture is …
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Risk Diversification by European Financial Conglomerates
Slijkerman, Jan Frederik; Schoenmaker, Dirk; Vries, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and insurers differs, an interesting question from a supervisory point of view is the risk reduction that derives from diversification within large banks and financial...
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For Better and for Worse - How Unpaid Bride Wealth provides Security
Hoogeveen, Hans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
insurance mechanisms, bride wealth qualifies as an importantsecurity enhancing institution: the arrangement covers nearly the …
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