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Rupert, Peter; Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Wasmer, Etienne - 2009

A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are … impact of commute time on job acceptance decisions. We also use the theory to calculate the bargaining power of workers which …

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Layoff costs and efficiency with asymmetric information

Delacroix, Alain; Wasmer, Etienne - 2009

Wage determination under asymmetric information generates inefficiencies due to excess turnover. Severance pay and layoff taxes can improve efficiency. We show that inefficient separations can even be fully removed with fixed separation taxes in the case where the relevant private information is...

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Inequality in individual mortality and economic conditions earlier in life

Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor); … - 2006

We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death certificates, covering the period 1815-2000, and we merge these with historical data on...

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Estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects on hazard rates

Gaure, Simen; Røed, Knut; Berg, Gerard J. van den; … - 2010

Consider a setting where a treatment that starts at some point during a spell (e.g. in unemployment) may impact on the hazard rate of the spell duration, and where the impact may be heterogeneous across subjects. We provide Monte Carlo evidence on the feasibility of estimating the distribution...

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Macroeconomic dynamics in a model of goods, labor and credit market frictions

Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas; Wasmer, Etienne - 2011

Building a model with three imperfect markets - goods, labor and credit - representing a product's life-cycle, we find … that goods market frictions drastically change the qualitative and quantitative dynamics of labor market variables. The … search models of the labor market fail in one of the two dimensions. Two factors related to goods market frictions generate …

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A steady-state model of a non-walrasian economy with three imperfect markets

Wasmer, Etienne - 2011

Unemployment may depend on equilibrium in other markets than the labor markets. This paper adresses this old idea by … introducing search frictions on several markets: in a model of credit and labor market imperfections as in Wasmer and Weil (2004 …

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Employment protection and capital-labor ratios

Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2014

labor frictions. Under standard assumptions, theory always implies a motononic negative link between capital-labor ratios …Employment protection (EPL) has a well known negative impact on labor flows as well as an ambiguous but often negative … effect on employment. In contrast, its impact on capital accumulation and capital-labor ratio is less well understood. The …

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How diverse can spatial measures of cultural diversity be? : results from Monte Carlo simulations of an agent-based model

Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2014

Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups – such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes - are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...

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Rebuttal of "on nonparametric identification of treatment effects in duration models"

Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016

In their IZA Discussion Paper 10247, Johansson and Lee claim that the main result (Proposition 3) in Abbring and Van den Berg (2003b) does not hold. We show that their claim is incorrect. At a certain point within their line of reasoning, they make a rather basic error while transforming one...

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Nonparametric instrumental variable methods for dynamic treatment evaluation

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bonev, Petyo; Mammen, Enno - 2016

noncompliance in a dynamic context. In an empirical application, we evaluate the French labor market policy reform PARE which … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …

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