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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; … - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325530
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Experiments on unemployment benefit sanctions and job search behavior
Boone, Jan; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; van Ours, Jan C. - 2004
This paper presents the results of an experimental study on unemployment benefit sanctions. The experimental set-up allows us to distinguish between the effect of benefit sanctions once they are imposed (the ex post effect) and the effect that unemployed want to avoid getting a benefit sanction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261770
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Stepping Stones for the Unemployed : The Effect of Temporary Jobs on the Duration until Regular Work
Zijl, Marloes; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Heyma, Arjan - 2004
Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from temporary into regular work. We investigate whether temporary work increases the transition rate to regular work. In that case, temporary work may enhance labour market efficiency....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261994
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Structural estimation of search intensity: do non-employed workers search enough?
Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274015
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Reservation wages and starting wages
van Ophem, Hans; Hartog, Joop; Berkhout, Peter - 2011
We analyse a unique data set that combines reservation wage and actually paid wage for a large sample of Dutch recent higher education graduates. On average, accepted wages are almost 8% higher than reservation wages, but there is no fixed proportionality. We find that the difference between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276127
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Measuring Labor Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison
Ridder, Geert; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2003
separate analyses for the USA, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. We quantify the monopsony power due to search frictions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261551
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Armoede en ongelijkheid bij ouderen: Een vergelijkende studie van de pensioenstelsels in België en Nederland
Keupers, Ingrid - 2009
) poverty rates are much higher than in the Netherlands (universal minimum pension). Poverty rates are higher for elderly women … inequality in income is higher for men than for women both in Belgium and in the Netherlands. In order to minimize poverty and … tested on two cases namely Belgium and the Netherlands. Based on micro data on household income as found in the LIS database …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335560
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Economic well-being and poverty among the elderly: an analysis based on a collective consumption model
Cherchye, Laurens; de Rock, Bram; Vermeulen, Frederic - 2008
poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … scale and a wife's share that is increasing in total expenditures. We further calculated poverty rates by means of the … collective consumption model. Collective poverty rates of widows and widowers turn out to be slightly lower than traditional ones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276395
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Job search with bidder memories
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Menzio, Guido; Smith, Eric - 2009
This paper revisits the no-recall assumption in job search models with take-it-or-leave-it offers. Workers who can recall previously encountered potential employers in order to engage them in Bertrand bidding have a distinct advantage over workers without such attachments. Firms account for this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292335
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Choice and success of job search methods
Weber, Andrea; Mahringer, Helmut - 2002
Job seekers can influence the arrival rate of job offers by the choice of search effort and the search methods they use. In this paper we empirically investigate the contribution of the use of different search methods on the outcome of search. Using unique data on the search behaviour of job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292778