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This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare 2017 to 2023 using regression-adjusted wages to make sure changes in composition of the workforce do not influence our estimates. The research period has been characterised by...
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In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) "Index for industry concentration". This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...
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Labor market theories allowing for search frictions make marked predictions on the effect of the degree of frictions on wages. Often, the effect is predicted to be negative. Despite the popularity of these theories, this has never been tested. We perform tests with matched worker-firm data. The...
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flows on wage formation as alternative to the traditional specification of wage equations where unemployment represents the …
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Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The answer to this question is central to a proper assessment of many trade and industrial policies. In this paper, we explore this question by examining how predictable changes in...
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welfare. This insight leads to a novel test for the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of … reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of … unemployment benefits in the United States, but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our …
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behaviors in 10th grade eliminates the unemployment effect, but strengthens the wage effect. As the latter is not explicable by …
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We use employer-employee matched administrative data from Ohio to study the role of firm pay premiums in explaining the large, persistent earnings losses of displaced workers. We estimate that earnings for displaced workers from the mid-2000s are depressed by 22 percent after four years,...
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