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Wages and Employment in a Random Social Network with Arbitrary Degree Distribution

Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

otherwise identical workers result in wage inequality and differences in unemployment rates. The paper is related to theoretical … wage on average and face a lower unemployment rate. Numerical computations for the specific case in which connections …

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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - Tinbergen Institute - 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....

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Search and the City

Teulings, C.N.; Gautier, P.A. - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is more efficient in larger regions. Then, interregional mobility …

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Real and Nominal Wage Adjustment in Open Economies

Forslund, Anders; Gottfries, Nils; Westermark, Andreas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2005

theoretical model we interpret this as evidence of union bargaining power. Unemployment benefits have substantial effects on wages …

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1 Open borders, transport links and local labor markets

Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

We study the labor market impact of opening borders to low-wage countries. The analysis exploits time and regional variation provided by the 2004 EU enlargement in combination with transport links to Sweden from the new member states. The results suggest an adverse impact on earnings of present...

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Open borders, transport links and local labor markets

Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …

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Emigration of Immigrants and Measures of Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence from Sweden.

Edin, P.-A.; Lalonde, R.J.; Aslund, O. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly … who leave. This creates the impression that immigrants are much more likely to emigrate than political ones. …

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Emigration of Immigrants and Measures of Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence from Sweden.

Edin, P.-A.; Lalonde, R.J.; Aslund, O. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

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Identification of 'Wasteful Commuting' using Search Theory

Ommeren, Jos Van; Straaten, Willemijn Van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

In this paper, we employ search theory as a micro-economic foundation for the wasteful commuting hypothesis. It is argued that the commute of the self-employed is the result of a search process for vacant workplaces, whereas employees search for vacant jobs through space. Because the arrival...

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