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labor market in which workers' location in an agglomeration depends on commuting costs, the endogenous price of land and the …. Given differences in commuting costs between the employed and the unemployed, this is realized by a change in the fraction …
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This paper investigates differences in worker turnover characteristics between periods of workforce expansion and contraction in a firm. We derive a Cox proportional hazard model from a simple model of job separation based on the expected surpluses from the firm and its workers. We account for...
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Nonparametric techniques are usually seen as a statistic device for data description and exploration, and not as a tool for estimating models with a richer economic structure, which are often required for policy analysis. This paper presents an example where nonparametric flexibility can be...
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universities in The Netherlands. We find that an indicator of the research productivity of the supervisor is an important …
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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
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Since the mid 1960s the Netherlands has an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and …
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the Netherlands is an interesting country for the study of working hour flexibility, as part-time employment is fairly …
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This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behaviour. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....
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