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Multiple equilibria and minimum wages in labor markets with informational frictions and heterogeneous production technologies
Berg, Gerard J. van den - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1999
It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with wage setting, search frictions, and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150510
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Worker turnover at the firm level and crowding out of lower educated workers
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Gautier, Pieter A.; Ours, Jan C. - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1998
In The Netherlands, as in many countries: unemployment rates of lower educated workers are higher and more cyclical … than unemployment rates of higher educated workers. In this paper we test whether this is caused by the fact that more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150516
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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like … relate the results to the relevant level of female labor force participation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703577
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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program
Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done by calibrating an equilibrium search model with heterogeneous worker … skills using pre-program data and then forecasting the program impacts. We compare the forecasts to observed aggregate labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822408
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Worker turnover at the firm level and crowding out of lower educated workers
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Gautier, Pieter A.; Ours, Jan C. - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1998
In The Netherlands, as in many countries: unemployment rates of lower educated workers are higher and more cyclical … than unemployment rates of higher educated workers. In this paper we test whether this is caused by the fact that more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782442
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An empirical equilibrium job search model with continuously distributed heterogeneity of workers' opportunity costs of employment and firms productivities, and search on the job
Bontemps, Christian; Robin, Jean-Marc; Berg, Gerard J. … - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1998
, and we assume that job offer arrival rates for workers are independent of their labor market state. We derive the … we apply to a dataset of individual labor market histories. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510199
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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies
Berg, Gerard J. van den - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with wage setting, search frictions, and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005281980
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Multiple equilibria and minimum wages in labor markets with informational frictions and heterogeneous production technologies
Berg, Gerard J. van den - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1999
It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with wage setting, search frictions, and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782571
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An empirical equilibrium job search model with continuously distributed heterogeneity of workers' opportunity costs of employment and firms productivities, and search on the job
Bontemps, Christian; Robin, Jean-Marc; Berg, Gerard J. … - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1998
, and we assume that job offer arrival rates for workers are independent of their labor market state. We derive the … we apply to a dataset of individual labor market histories. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783472
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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies
Berg, Gerard J. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with wage setting, search frictions, and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256618