Simulatie-experimenten met een prototype van een model dat voor Nederland op consistente wijze alle arbeidsmarktstromen op macro-niveau in beeld brengt, laten zien dat een arbeidsparticipatiebeleid weinig effectief is indien dat beleid zich uitsluitend op het arbeids-aanbod richt. Een...

This paper has been presented at the Journal of Applied Econometrics International Conference on the Micro-Econometrics of Dynamic Decision Making, in Tilburg, May 1994. We would like to thank John Rust, Arie Kapteyn and other participants at this conference for their helpful comments. This...

A flow model of the Dutch labour market is used to calculate the efects of autonomous labour demand and supply shocks on employment and unemployment. The model is centered around a matching function which allows for heterogeneous unemployment by taking explicitly account of POWS through various...

This paper investigates the consumption and savings behaviour of individuals that have experienced a job loss. Building on the scant literature on the issue, we test for the impact of unemployment benefits on consumption levels of the unemployed. We also expand on previous work in this area by...

This paper analyzes the effect of unemployment insurance sanctions on the transition rate from unemployment to employment. Sanctions are punitive benefits reductions that are supposed to make recipients comply with cer­tain minimum requirements concerning search behavior. We use a unique set of...

In flow models of the labor market, wages are determined by negotiations between workers and employers on the surplus value of a realized match. From this perspective our study presents an econometric analysis of the influence of labor market flows on wage formation as alternative to the...

During the last decade The Netherlands witnessed an increase in the pace of job creation and job destruction. A sensitivity analysis using an empirical model of labour market flows shows thatthe congestion in the matching process due to the increase in the pace of job creation and destruction...