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Unequal Chances on a Flexible Labor Market, The Case of the Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert E.; Veenman, Justus - 2008
unemployment, household care and disability to employment. Then we decompose the differences in expected duration between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325852
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Unequal Chances on a Flexible Labor Market, the Case of the Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert E.; Veenman, Justus - 2008
unemployment, household care and disability to employment. Then we decompose the differences in expected duration between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220891
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Lifetime Labor Supply in a Search Model of Unemployment
Bettendorf, Leon J.H.; Broer, D. Peter - 2003
pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324741
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Economic Impacts of Cultural Diversity in the Netherlands: Productivity, Utility, and Sorting
Bakens, Jessie; Mulder, Peter; Nijkamp, Peter - 2012
This paper identifies the role of cultural diversity in explaining spatial disparities in wages and housing prices across Dutch cities, using unique individual panel data of home owners. We distinguish between the effects of interactions-based productivity, consumption amenities and sorting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326320
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Homeownership and Labour Market Behaviour: Interpreting the Evidence
Rouwendal, Jan; Nijkamp, Peter - 2007
geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general confirm that homeowners have longer unemployment spells or higher … particular, it predicts lower geographical mobility of homeowners as well as higher exit rates from unemployment by acceptance of … causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325367
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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors
Jonker, Nicole; van Ophem, Hans; Hartog, Joop - 2002
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324997
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Search and the City
Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, P.A. - 2002
. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is more efficient in larger regions. Then, interregional mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325015
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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; … - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325530
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Wages and Employment in a Random Social Network with Arbitrary Degree Distribution
Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2006
otherwise identical workers result in wage inequality and differences in unemployment rates. The paper is related to theoretical … wage on average and face a lower unemployment rate. Numerical computations for the specific case in which connections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325588
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Returns to On-the-Job Search and the Dispersion of Wages
Gottfries, Axel; Teulings, Coen - 2016
A wide class of models with On-the-Job Search (OJS) predicts that workers gradually select into better-paying jobs, until lay-off occurs, when this selection process starts over from scratch. We develop a simple methodology to test these predictions. Our inference uses two sources of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586695