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Directional Imbalance in Transport Prices: An Application to Inland Shipping in North-West Europe

Jonkeren, Olaf; Ommeren, Jos N. van; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

According to theory, the effect of carriers' transport costs on freight prices depends on the directional imbalance in transport flows. Using data on inland waterway transport, we demonstrate that when the ratio of export to import trips doubles, the marginal effect of carriers' transport costs...

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The Value of an Educated Population for an Individual's Entrepreneurship Success

Millan, Jose Maria; Congregado, Emilio; Roman, Concepcion; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

. The value of other input factors, such as (knowledge) capital and labor is likely to be affected by the education level of …-2001) panel of labor market participants in the EU-15 countries from which we select individuals who have been observed as …

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Which Industries are shifting the Beveridge Curve?

Barnichon, Regis; Elsby, Michael; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

the Beveridge curve into different parts using data from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). We find that …

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The Emergence of Social Structure: Employer Information Networks in an Experimental Labor Market

Gerxhani, Klarita; Brandts, Jordi; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

We use laboratory experiments to investigate how employers develop social structures for sharing information about the trustworthiness of job candidates, when worker opportunism is possible. The experimental data show that substantial information sharing emerges. Two types of information...

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Imperfect Information, Lagged Labor Adjustment and the Great Moderation

Willems, Tim; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

This paper first documents the increase in the time lag with which labor input reacts to output fluctuations ("the … labor adjustment lag") that is visible in US data since the mid-1980s. We show that a lagged labor adjustment response is … optimal in a setting where there is uncertainty about the persistence of shocks and where labor input is costly to adjust. We …

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How Large are Search Frictions?

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen A. - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

This paper shows that we can normalize job and worker characteristics so that, without frictions,

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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience

Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...

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The Entrepreneurial Ladder and its Determinants

Zwan, Peter van der; Thurik, Roy; Grilo, Isabel - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

We test a new model where the entrepreneurial decision is described as a process of successive engagement levels, i.e., as an entrepreneurial ladder. Five levels are distinguished using nearly 12,000 observations from the 2004 “Flash Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25...

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Interaction of Regional Population and Employment

Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

We investigate the interaction of regional population and employment in a simu1taneous model, allowing for interregional commuting. The proposed dynamic specification distinguishes between short-run and equilibrium adjustment effects and it encompasses the lagged-adjustment specification that is...

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