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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 been relatively stable in the U.S. over the last decade. Since the summer of 2009, in spite of firms reporting more job openings, the U.S. unemployment rate has not declined in...

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Tracing the Changing Measures of Unemployment in Dutch Unemployment Statistics 1900-1940

Rodenburg, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

In the period before the second World War, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics had developed two sets of indicators ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one on statistical data of labour exchanges. This paper...

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Models as Measuring Instruments

Rodenburg, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

- provided the models is calibrated - this suffice for measurement. This paper explores this construction of a measuring device … in models by analysing the measurement of duration dependence of unemployment. Since search theory can’t be made … measurement to take place by modelling behaviour according to some assumptions, which operate as constraints. While this Weibull …

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A Theory of Education and Health

Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

This paper presents a unified theory of human capital with both health capital and, what we term, skill capital endogenously determined within the model. By considering joint investment in health capital and in skill capital, the model highlights similarities and differences in these two...

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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We extend Lazear’s theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical framework linking new business creation with an entrepreneur’s skill variety. Second, in this model we allow for both generalists and specialists to possess skill variety....

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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balancedskill profiles, making them more likely to become entrepreneurs. By not havingtaken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated the impactsboth of risk aversion and balanced skills on...

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The Political Economy of Bank- and Market Dominance

Perotti, Enrico; Thadden, Ernst Ludwig von - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

Legislation affects corporate governance and the return to human and financial capital. We allow the preference of a political majority to determine both the governance structure and the extent of labor rents. In a society where median voters have relatively more at stake in the form of human...

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Regional Inequality and Human Capital Quality: The Impact of Technology on the Arrival Rate of Employment Offers

Alexiadis, Stilianos; Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper aims to provide a conceptual and operational context for analysing regional inequalities. It does so by utilizing a ‘search & matching’ framework. The model, developed in this paper, maps the way in which individuals are distributed according to: 1) the abilities of individuals to...

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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience

Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...

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Cognitive Capital and Islands of Innovation: The Lucas Growth Model from a Regional Perspective

Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper led to an article in Regional Studies (2014). Volume 48, issue 4, pages 624-645. Knowledge triggers regional growth. Evidence suggests that skilled labour force concentrates in islands of innovation, determining an advantage for innovative regions and a challenge for...

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