Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 78
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Imperfect Information, Lagged Labor Adjustment and the Great Moderation
Willems, Tim; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A HREF="https://apps.webofknowledge.com/full_record.do?product=UA&search_mode=GeneralSearch&qid=5&SID=T2lPmvB33HytcbnHQmV&page=1&doc=4">'Oxford Economic Papers-New Series'</A>, 2013, 65(2), 219-239.<P> This paper first documents the increase in the time lag with which labor input reacts to output fluctuations ("the labor adjustment lag") that is visible in US data since the...</p></a>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256598
Cover Image
An Experimental Investigation of Wage Taxation and Unemployment in Closed and Open Economies
Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Instituut
We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed … the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and unemployment. (ii) Employment is boosted by budget deficits but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255591
Cover Image
Unemployment, Growth and the Organisation of Work
Groot, Henri L.F. de; Schaik, Anton B.T.M. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
by investments in R&D performed in the high-wage sector. Unemployment is determined by the costs and benefits of waiting … for a high-paid job. The wage structure, growth, and unemployment are shown to depend on the way effort is extracted. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256488
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Unemployment Dynamics in the OECD
Elsby, Michael W.L.; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegul - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
available data for fourteen OECD economies. We thendevise a method to decompose changes in unemployment into contributions … accountedfor by changes in inflow and outflow rates for cases where unemployment deviates fromits flow steady state, as it does in … unemploymentvariation within countries. For Anglo-Saxon economies we find approximately a 15:85inflow/outflow split to unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257294
Cover Image
Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998
We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the … total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256433
Cover Image
Aggregate Real Wages: Macro Fluctuations and Micro Drivers
Daly, Mary C.; Hobijn, Bart; Wiles, Theodore S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
Using data from the Current Population Survey from 1980 through 2010 we examine what drives variation andcyclicality in the growth rate of real wages over time. We employ a novel decomposition technique that allowsus to divide the time series for median weekly earnings growth into the part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257608
Cover Image
Optimal Government Spending and Unemployment
Linnemann, Ludger; Schabert, Andreas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
We study optimal government spending in a business cycle model with frictional unemployment. The Ramsey optimal policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256990
Cover Image
Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle
Koellinger, P.D.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the 'Review of Economics and Statistics' (2012). Volume 94, issue 4, pages 1143-1156.<P> We study the cyclical pattern of entrepreneurial activity. Results across 22 OECD countries for the period 1972-2007 show that entrepreneurial activity is a...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255833