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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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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 Institute - 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/10005209460
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The Effect of Search Frictions on Wages
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vuuren, Aico van - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
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 theories, this has never been tested. We perform tests with matched worker-firm data. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504886
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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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How important are Institutions for Growth in Transition Countries?
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions are significant for growth and, especially, foreign direct … investment (FDI), the latter in turn being important for the former. It is also found that the correlation between institutions … growth performance in transition countries than institutions per se. This suggests that macroeconomic stabilization and peace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144418
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Determinants of Enterprise restructuring in Transition: Description of a Survey in Russian Industry
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Institute - 2000
restructuring, ownership, competition, budget constraints and, particularly, institutions in Russian industry, covering the period … relatively positive assessment of formal and informal institutions respectively, and largely the same ruling networks as before …) reform has been accomplished. That is: stronger competition and better institutions go with more restructuring, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137157
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How important are Institutions for Growth in Transition Countries?
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256354
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Determinants of Enterprise restructuring in Transition: Description of a Survey in Russian Industry
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
restructuring, ownership,competition, budget constraints and, particularly, institutions in Russian industry, covering theperiod … assessment of formal andinformal institutions respectively, and largely the same ruling networks as before the start of … budget constraints do not.The substitution, to some extent, of informal for formal institutions may have prevented even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256633