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Exponential or Power Distance-decay for Commuting? An Alternative Specification
Vries, Jacob J. de; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In this paper we determine the effect of transport cost on commuting flows, on the basis of an analysis of home … of commuting reaches a value of –4 for distances around 24 km, while it is close to 0 for both very short and very long … predictions concerning the effect of infrastructure improvements on commuting flows. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255555
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Exponential or Power Distance-decay for Commuting? An Alternative Specification
Vries, Jacob J. de; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
In this paper we determine the effect of transport cost on commuting flows, on the basis of an analysis of home … of commuting reaches a value of –4 for distances around 24 km, while it is close to 0 for both very short and very long … predictions concerning the effect of infrastructure improvements on commuting flows. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137080
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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In our increasingly interconnected and open world, international migration is becoming an important socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256215
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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
In our increasingly interconnected and open world, international migration is becoming an important socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137039
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Ethnic Concentration and Human Capital Formation
Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
international migration research, both from a methodological as well as an empirical perspective. The purpose of this paper is … twofold. First, it aims to provide an overview of that part of the migration literature that is concerned with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137380
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Ethnic Concentration and Human Capital Formation
Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
international migration research, both from a methodological as well as an empirical perspective. The purpose of this paper is … twofold. First, it aims to provide an overview of that part of the migration literature that is concerned with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256838
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Wages and Employment in a Random Social Network with Arbitrary Degree Distribution
Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
This discussion paper resulted in an article in the 'American Economic Review' (2006). Volume 96, issue 2, pages 270-274.<P> Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255987
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Wages and Employment in a Random Social Network with Arbitrary Degree Distribution
Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137278
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling provide Earnings Insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008867507
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling provide Earnings Insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256636