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Estimating the skill bias in agglomeration externalities and social returns to education : evidence from Dutch matched worker-firm micro-data
Groot, Stefan P. T.; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2014
density and productivity and wages has long been established in the economic literature, less is known about the effects of … supply of university graduates on wages, i.e. the social return to education. …
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Returns to routine job tasks in the German labour market : an instrumental variables approach
Mihaylov, Emil - 2021 - Revision November 2021
This paper studies the impact of routine job tasks on workers wages in the German labour market. Using nationally … associated with workers hourly wages; the negative effect of routine tasks is most pronounced in high-skilled non …-intensity of the workers' own occupation in 1979. The estimation procedure rests on the assumption that the two instruments are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591251
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Regional economic impacts of immigration : a review
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003851149
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Remittances and their effect on emigration intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - 2005
What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad. Results show, first, that one cannot clearly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343282
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Remittances and their effect on emigration intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002695470
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The effect of search friction on wages
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vuuren, Aico van - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003383008
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An empirical measure for labor market density
Gautier, Pieter; Teulings, Coen N. - 2000
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303301
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A cointegration model for search equilibrium wage formation
Broersma, Lourens; Butter, Frank A. G. den; Kock, Udo - 2003
In flow models of the labor market, wages are determined by negotiations between workers and employers on the surplus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334346
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Wage dynamics and promotions inside and between firms
Silva, António Dias da; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006
We focus on the dynamic relation between wage increases, promotions and job changes. We relate our empirical analyses to the theoretical model of Gibbons and Waldman (1999). In the empirical analyses we use the Portuguese matched employer-employee data Quadros de Pessoal. We conclude from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349718
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Earnings risk and demand for higher education
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2002
We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...
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