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Munch, Jakob Roland; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2003

This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish between finding employment locally or by being geographically mobile. We find that home ownership hampers the propensity to move for job reasons but improves the chances of finding...

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Exponential or Power Distance-decay for Commuting? An Alternative Specification

de Vries, Jacob J.; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 2004

-to-work journeys between municipalities in Denmark. Special attention is given to a proper estimation method and the form of the …

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Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes

Dobbelaere, Sabien; McCormack, Grace; Prinz, Daniel; … - 2022

Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For workers at acquired firms, takeovers are associated with a 8.5% drop in employment at the consolidated firm and a 2.6% drop in total labor income. These effects are persistent...

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Taxation and unemployment: an applied general equilibrium approach for Germany

Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Feil, Michael - 2002

This paper presents an applied general equilibrium model for Germany. The model integrates specific labour market institutions in an otherwise standard general equilibrium framework. There are sectoral wage negotiations for two skill types of workers between firms and trade unions. The...

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The minimum wage, turnover, and the shape of the wage distribution

Brochu, Pierre; Green, David A.; Lemieux, Thomas; … - 2023

This paper proposes an empirical approach to decompose the distributional effects of minimum wages into effects for workers moving out of employment, workers moving into employment, and workers continuing in employment. We estimate the effects of the minimum wage on the hazard rate for wages,...

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Innovator Mobility in Finland and Denmark

Bagger, Jesper; Maliranta, Mika; Määttänen, Niku; … - 2016

, Denmark is an interesting benchmark country because its labour market is generally considered very flexible. We find that … overall labour mobility is significantly lower in Finland than in Denmark. However, relative to other occupation groups …, innovators are actually more mobile in Finland than in Denmark. In Finland, innovators tend to cluster in firms that are among …

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Handel, Technologie und Beschäftigung

Heitger, Bernhard; Schrader, Klaus; Stehn, Jürgen - 1999

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Specialization, outsourcing and wages

Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan - 2005

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains...

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Labour mobility - an adjustment mechanism in Euroland? Empirical evidence for Western Germany, France and Italy

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...

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Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

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