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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 …

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The commuting distribution

Ommeren, Jos van - 2004

In this paper we analyse the commuting distribution from a job search perspective.We have examined under which conditions the commuting distribution is unimodal which isone of the stylised facts of commuting. It appears that a necessary condition is that space istwo-dimensional. Furthermore, one...

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Identification of "wasteful commuting" using search theory

Ommeren, Jos van; Straaten, J. Willemijn van der - 2005

In this paper, we employ search theory as a micro-economic foundation for the wasteful commuting hypothesis. It is argued that the commute of the self-employed is the result of a search process for vacant workplaces, whereas employees search for vacant jobs through space. Because the arrival...

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The use of spatial filtering techniques : the spatial and space-time structure of German unemployment data

Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - 2006

pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …

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I can't get no satisfaction - necessity entrepreneurship and procedural utility

Block, Jörn; Koellinger, Philipp - 2008

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The use of spatial filtering techniques : the spatialand space-time structure of German unemployment data

Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - 2006

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I can't get no satisfaction : necessity entrepreneurship and procedural utility

Block, Jörn; Koellinger, Philipp - 2008

individuals starting a business after a period of long-term unemployment and those individuals with a lack of better employment …

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Spatial heterogeneity and the wage curve revisited

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2004

local labour market is in close proximity of other labour markets, a local shock that increases unemployment may not lead to … lower pay rates if employers fear outward migration of their workers. Hence, the unemployment elasticity of pay will be …

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Life satisfaction differences between workers and non-workers : the value of participation per se

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2001

Is working more than monetary income? This paper attempts to give an answer to this question on the basis of the German Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same household income, the monetary value of participating in...

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Unemployment dynamics in the OECD

Elsby, Michael W. L.; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegül - 2011

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