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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
In this paper we present and estimate a synthesis of previous equilibrium search models: allowing for continuous distributions of workers opportunity costs of employment, as well as firms' productivities. The model allows for on-the-job search, and we assume that job offer arrival rates for...
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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The Wage Curve Reloaded
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
pay and the local unemployment rate - in modern U.S. data. Consistent with recent evidence from more than 40 other …’s theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of … job-finding is lower in states with higher unemployment, and (iii) employees are less happy in states that have higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566432
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What Should Be Done About Rising Unemployment in the OECD?
Bell, David N.F.; Blanchflower, David G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
, but sustainable, recovery. Improvement in the labor market may take some time, but many believe that unemployment will … consequences for unemployment may be worse than anticipated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565212
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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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The effect of unemployment insurance sanctions on the transition rate from unemployment to employment
Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1996
This paper analyzes the effect of unemployment insurance sanctions on the transition rate from unemployment to …­als who started collecting unemployment insurance in the Netherlands in 1992. To deal with the selectivity of the occurrence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783418
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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
In this paper we present and estimate a synthesis of previous equilibrium search models: allowing for continuous distributions of workers opportunity costs of employment, as well as firms’ productivities. The model allows for on-the-job search, and we assume that job offer arrival rates for...
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
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UK UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE GREAT RECESSION
Bell, David N.F.; Blanchflower, David G. - In: National Institute Economic Review 214 (2010) 1, pp. 3-3
This paper considers some of the implications of the increase in UK unemployment since the beginning of the Great … Recession. The major finding is that the sharp increase in unemployment and decrease in employment is largely concentrated on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855494
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The impact of sanctions for young welfare recipients on transitions to work and wages and on dropping out
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249248