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Beyond Okun's law : output growth and labor market flows
Lim, Guay C.; Dixon, Robert J.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2018
This paper studies the relationship between the change in the unemployment rate and output growth using an approach … recessions. The framework also highlights the potential misspecification in conventional models of Okun's Law unless stringent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940045
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Separations at the firm level
Gautier, Pieter; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongstlower educated workers and the relatively strong … level of education can notexplain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educatedworkers. We conclude …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300551
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Do stepping stone jobs exist? : early career paths in the medical profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
becoming juniormedical specialist. To deal with selectivity, we simultaneously model thetransitions from unemployment to … trainee, from unemployment to medicalassistant, from medical asistant to trainee and from medical assistant tounemployment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301153
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International assortative matchingin the European labor market
Peeters, Thomas; Ours, Jan C. van - 2022
We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high skilled labor market. We characterize worker productivity as the ability to contribute to physical output and define firm productivity as the capacity to transform physical output...
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