With informational frictions on the labor market, hedonic wage regressions provide biased estimates of the willingness to pay for job attributes. We show that a recent theoretical result, which states that variation in job durations does provide good estimates in case of a basic on-the-job...

This paper develops a flow model in a dual labour market with heterogeneous workers and heterogeneous jobs that allows for upward mobility or promotion flows via the internal market and demotion or deskilling flows through the state of unemployment. Dynamic impulse-responses analyses are used to...

In dit artikel belichten we het voorspelgedrag van bedrijven ten aanzien van de werkgelegenheid door de voorspellingen te confronteren met de realisaties. Er blijkt een duidelijk verband te bestaan tussen voorspellingen en realisaties. De misschattingen blijken vooral een gevolg te zijn van het...

Recent location patterns of modern firms appear to exhibit high mobility patterns with a tendency towards footlooseness. The spatial-economic dynamics - sometimes across the border - of firms is encapsulated in the term 'nomadic firms'. This paper adresses the issue of nomadic behaviour of firms...

This paper seeks to develop a new interactive approach which will facilitate the communication process between experts and regional stakeholders, by using a sound methodology and the opportunities offered by Internet. The application centers around one of the regions in the eastern part of The...

This paper analyses employers' recruitment strategies (in terms of search channel used, and applicants' characteristics) in response to different conditions on the relevant regional labour market. In particular we were able to formulate two hypotheses on the nature of the adjustments: (1) The...