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Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....

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Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data

van den Berg, Gerard J.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2000

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the … total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France …

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Human Capital Accumulation, Education and Earnings Inequality

Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper attempts to add to the understanding of the causes for the differing recent developments in inequality in OECD countries. The similarity of shocks and technological changes affecting these countries suggests that interactions of these shocks and countryspecific institutions are...

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Human capital and growth: Specification matters

Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, Thomas - 2011

This paper suggests that the weak empirical effect of human capital on growth in existing cross-country studies is partly the result of an inappropriate specification that does not account for the different channels through which human capital affects growth. A systematic replication of earlier...

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Real and nominal wage rigidities and the rate of inflation : evidence from West German micro data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bonin, Holger; Sunde, Uwe - 2003

due to nominal, but mostly real wage rigidity is substantial. The extent of real rigidity rises with inflation, whereas … the opposite holds for nominal rigidity. Overall, the incidence of wage rigidity, which accelerates unemployment growth …, is most likely minimized in an environment with moderate inflation. …

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Stepping Stones for the Unemployed : The Effect of Temporary Jobs on the Duration until Regular Work

Zijl, Marloes; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Heyma, Arjan - 2004

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour … unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …

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The Knowledge Lift : The Swedish Adult Education Program That Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels

Albrecht, James; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vroman, Susan - 2005

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably...

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The role of salience in performance schemes: Evidence from a field experiment

Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Sunde, Uwe - 2012

Incentive schemes affect performance and priorities of agents but, in reality, they can be complicated even for simple tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest in quantity and quality of output. We use data from...

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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …

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Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

the interactions of regional labor markets in West Germany is highlighted in several dimensions. We test for spatial … autocorrelation in regional hires, unemployment and vacancy levels, we examine the patterns of new matches in regions, identify … variation in unemployment rates, combined with little inter-regional migration. We find evidence in favor of labor market …

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