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Worker turnover at the firm level and crowding out of lower educated workers
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Gautier, Pieter A.; Ours, Jan C. - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1998
In The Netherlands, as in many countries: unemployment rates of lower educated workers are higher and more cyclical … than unemployment rates of higher educated workers. In this paper we test whether this is caused by the fact that more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150516
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Separations at the firm level
Gautier, Pieter A.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan … - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1999
-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451411
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Worker turnover at the firm level and crowding out of lower educated workers
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Gautier, Pieter A.; Ours, Jan C. - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1998
In The Netherlands, as in many countries: unemployment rates of lower educated workers are higher and more cyclical … than unemployment rates of higher educated workers. In this paper we test whether this is caused by the fact that more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782442
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Separations at the firm level
Gautier, Pieter A.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan … - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1999
-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782757
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Unemployment Dynamics in the OECD
Elsby, Michael W.L.; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegul - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
We provide a set of comparable estimates for the rates of inflow to and outflow from unemployment using publicly … available data for fourteen OECD economies. We then devise a method to decompose changes in unemployment into contributions … accounted for by changes in inflow and outflow rates for cases where unemployment deviates from its flow steady state, as it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367438
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Business Cycles and Compositional Variation in U.S. Unemployment
Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - Tinbergen Institute - 1997
In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136894
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Business Cycles and Compositional Variation in U.S. Unemployment
Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997
In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257090
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Unemployment Dynamics in the OECD
Elsby, Michael W.L.; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegul - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
available data for fourteen OECD economies. We thendevise a method to decompose changes in unemployment into contributions … accountedfor by changes in inflow and outflow rates for cases where unemployment deviates fromits flow steady state, as it does in … unemploymentvariation within countries. For Anglo-Saxon economies we find approximately a 15:85inflow/outflow split to unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257294
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The Labor Market in the Great Recession: An Update
Elsby, Michael W.L.; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegul; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
Since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009, the unemployment rate has recovered slowly, falling by only one … weakness has led to the highest level of long-term unemployment in the U.S. in the postwar period, and a blurring of the … distinction between unemployment and nonparticipation. We show that flows from nonparticipation to unemployment are important for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255576
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The Effect of Search Frictions on Wages
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vuuren, Aico van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537110000916">'Labour Economics'</A>, 17(6), 875-85.<P>Labor market theories allowing for search frictions make marked predictions on the effect of the degree of frictions on wages. Often, the effect is predicted to be negative. Despite the popularity of these...</p></a>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255845