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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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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. - 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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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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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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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
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Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256433
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A structural analysis of job search methods and subsequent wages
Koning, Pierre; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ridder, Geert - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1997
differ. The model allows for search during unemployment as well as search on the job. We conclude that although the method by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822561
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Punitive sanctions and the transition rate from welfare to work
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der; Ours, Jan … - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1998
In The Netherlands, the average exit rate out of welfare is dramatically low. Most welfare recipients have to comply with guidelines on job search effort that are imposed by the welfare agency. If they do not, then a sanction in the form of a temporarily benefit reduction can be imposed. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782709