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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 …

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The pace of structural change, cyclical shocks and unemployment dynamics : simulations using an empirical flow model

Butter, Frank A. G. den; Dijk, Mark van - 1997

increase in the pace of job creation and destruction may have substantial effects on employment and unemployment;the effects … may be out of its unemployment equilibrium for quite a long time after a shock occurs.The novelty of the model is that it … takes explicitly account of the propagationof shocks through the various duration classes of unemployment andallows for …

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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 …

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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 …

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Unemployment dynamics in the OECD

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

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The persistence and nature of the labor reallocation shock during the COVID-19 crisis

Steijn, Mathieu P. A. - 2024

The COVID-19 crisis may have widely and permanently altered the labor market through the demand for skills. Crises tend to accelerate technological change. Previous recent crises were characterized by an acceleration of automation, which generally led to a decrease in middle-income jobs with...

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Where to go? : workers' reasons to quit and intra- versus interindustry job mobility

Delfgaauw, Josse - 2005

This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their industry of employment. A bad experience with, for...

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Pension rules and labour market mobility

Lammers, Marloes; Bloemen, Hans H.G.; Hochguertel, Stefan S. - 2017 - This version: June 2017

This paper makes use of a natural experiment to examine effects of potential capital losses and general attractiveness of pension schemes on employees' propensity to change jobs. On January 1st 2004, the two largest pension funds in the Netherlands, for civil servants and for the health care...

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The workers' value of the remaining employment contract duration

Ommeren, Jos van; Hazans, Mihails - 2005

We introduce and apply a method for estimating workers' marginal willingness to pay for job attributes employing data on job search activity. Worker's willingness to pay for the remaining duration of the employment contract is derived. We provide evidence that workers attach substantial value to...

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