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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...
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Paid to quit
Dur, Robert A. J.; Schmittdiel, Heiner - 2013
Inspired by a recent observation about an online retail company, this paper explains why a firm may find it optimal to offer an exit bonus to recent hires so as to induce self-selection. We study a double adverse selection problem, in which the principal can neither observe agents’ commitment...
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Wages and employment in the Netherlands, 2017-2023
Klinker, Iris; Weel, Bas ter - 2024
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 … slightly fallen. Wages have been rising for workers at the bottom of the wage distribution. From the median of the wage …
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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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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 based on labor market flows. The framework shows why the Okun coefficient may be constant/time-varying and/or symmetric/asymmetric and that the outcome lies with the behavior of...
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Educational choice, initial wage and wage growth
Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van - 2020
We investigate the major choice of college graduates where we make choice dependent on expected initial wages and … expected real wage growth and expected initial wages across majors. Furthermore, the differences in these expectations appear …
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Structural estimation of search intensity : do non-employed workers search enough?
Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
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The impact of trade liberalization on the return to education in Vietnam : wage versus employment effect
Oostendorp, Remco H.; Doan Hong Quang - 2010
. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we … trade liberalization on the return to education taking into account both changes in wages and employment. The results show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386195
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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
During the last decade The Netherlands witnessed an increase in the pace of job creation and job destruction. A sensitivity analysis using an empirical model of labour market flows shows thatthe congestion in the matching process due to the increase in the pace of job creation and destruction...
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Victims of progress : economic integration, specialization, and wages for unskilled labor
Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2000
deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303867