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Social Interactions in Unemployment
Lalive, Rafael - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005450776
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Social Interactions in Unemployment
Lalive, Rafael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257193
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Compensation of Regional Unemployment in Housing Markets
Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
Why are regional unemployment differentials in Europe so persistent if, as the wage curve literature demonstrates …, there is no compensation in labour markets? We hypothesize that workers in high-unemployment regions are compensated in … housing markets. Modelling regional unemployment differentials as a consequence of centralized wage bargaining, we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136993
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Search Theory and Commuting Behavior
Rouwendal, Jan - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
In this paper I argue that search theory is a useful addition to the way economists and geographers have approached the study of commuting behavior. This is illustrated by showing that introduction of a spatial element into the standard model of job search leads to the prediction of critical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137262
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Homeownership and Labour Market Behaviour: Interpreting the Evidence
Rouwendal, Jan; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on … geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general confirm that homeowners have longer unemployment spells or higher … unemployment rates. Even though this finding is related to heterogeneity in the labour force and associated selectivity effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144526
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Search and the City
Teulings, C.N.; Gautier, P.A. - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
We develop a model of an economy with several regions, which differ in scale. Within each region, workers have to search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042219
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Compensation of Regional Unemployment in Housing Markets
Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
-0335.2007.00664.x/abstract">'Economica'</A>, 2008, 76(301), 71-88.<P> Why are regional unemployment differentials in Europe so … in high-unemployment regions are compensated in housing markets. Modelling regional unemployment differentials as a … low-unemployment regions in general equilibrium. The compensating differentials hypothesis is tested on city-level data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255505
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Search and the City
Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, P.A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
We develop a model of an economy with several regions, which differ in scale. Within each region, workers have to search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255840
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Homeownership and Labour Market Behaviour: Interpreting the Evidence
Rouwendal, Jan; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on … geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general confirm that homeowners have longer unemployment spells or higher … unemployment rates. Even though this finding is related to heterogeneity in the labour force and associated selectivity effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257004
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Search Theory and Commuting Behavior
Rouwendal, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
In this paper I argue that search theory is a useful addition to the way economists and geographers have approached the study of commuting behavior. This is illustrated by showing that introduction of a spatial element into the standard model of job search leads to the prediction of critical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257065