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When the Quality of a Nation triggers Emigration

van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Henkens, Kène - 2006

emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand … emigration from high-income countries we focus not only on factors that refer to individual characteristics, but also on the …, etc. Based on data about the emigration intentions of the Dutch population collected during the years 2004-2005 we …

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Migration and Immigrants: The Case of the Netherlands

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2001

This paper surveys migration to and from the Netherlands since thesixteenth century with an emphasis on the post-war period. Existingstudies on the labour market performance of immigrants and ethnicminorities are considered and some new results from our recentresearch are presented.

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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences

van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Henkens, Kène - 2004

What drives stated preferences about the number of foreigners? Is it self-interest as stressed by the political economy of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with the preference for the aggregate population size? In...

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Ethnic Drift and White Flight: A Gravity Model of Neighborhood Formation

Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond; Mulder, Peter - 2016

Ethnicity has become an increasingly important factor in neighborhood formation in many developed economies. We specify a gravity model for neighborhoods to assess the role of ethnicity in intra-urban residential relocations. Migration patterns of different ethnic groups are hypothesized to...

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Which Industries are shifting the Beveridge Curve?

Barnichon, Regis; Elsby, Michael; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, … - 2011

The negative relationship between the unemployment rate and the job openings rate, known as the Beveridge curve, has been relatively stable in the U.S. over the last decade. Since the summer of 2009, in spite of firms reporting more job openings, the U.S. unemployment rate has not declined in...

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Trade Reform and Labor Market Dynamics

Botman, Dennis P.J.; Tieman, Alexander F. - 1999

We present an equilibrium-search model with heterogenous workers whosearch for a job in one of two sectors and who lose part of theirskills during unemployment. We show that an import tariff increasethe wage and the employment prospects in the protected sector. Thisresults in a labor market...

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An Empirical Measure for Labor Market Density

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2000

In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) Index for industry concentration. This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...

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Premium Differentiation in the Unemployment Insurance System and the Demand for Labor

Alessie, Rob J.M.; Bloemen, Hans - 2000

We simulate the effect of the introduction of premium differentiation (experience rating) in the Dutch Unemployment Insurance system on the demand for labor for a variety of sectors in the Dutch economy. For the simulations we use the Bentolila and Bertola (1990) framework as a point of...

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How Large are Search Frictions?

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2003

This paper shows that we can normalize job and worker characteristics so that, without frictions,there exists a linear relationship between wages on the one hand and worker and job type indiceson the other. However, for five European countries and the United States we find strong evidencefor a...

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Business Ownership and Unemployment in Japan

van Acht, Joost; Stam, Joop; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid - 2004

The influence of industrial structure, more specifically of business ownership, is investigated on the level of unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an...

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