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Unequal chances on a flexible labor market : the case of the Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert; Veenman, Justus - 2008
unemployment, household care and disability to employment. Then we decompose the differences in expected duration between the …
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Commuting, children and the gender wage gap
Borghorst, Malte; Mulalic, Ismir; Ommeren, Jos van - 2021
It has been documented that the gender pay gap strongly increases after the birth of the first child. We focus on Denmark and show that gender differences regarding commuting play an important role in explaining this. We offer 3 pieces of evidence. First, the gender pay and commuting gaps come...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650122
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Structural estimation of search intensity : do non-employed workers search enough?
Gautier, Pieter; 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....
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The gender wage gap and the role of reservation wages : new evidence for unemployed workers
Caliendo, Marco; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Mahlstedt, Robert - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 136 (2017), pp. 161-173
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Returns to on-the-job search and the dispersion of wages
Gottfries, Axel; Teulings, Coen N. - 2016
A wide class of models with On-the-Job Search (OJS) predicts that workers gradually select into better-paying jobs, until lay-off occurs, when this selection process starts over from scratch. We develop a simple methodology to test these predictions. Our inference uses two sources of...
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Labor mobility and racial discrimination
Deschamps, Pierre; Sousa, José de - In: European economic review : EER 135 (2021), pp. 1-29
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Homeownership and labour market behaviour : interpreting the evidence
Rouwendal, Jan; Nijkamp, Peter - 2008 - This version: November 3, 2008
geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general confirm that homeowners have longer unemployment spells or higher … particular, it predicts lower geographical mobility of homeowners as well as higher exit rates from unemployment by acceptance of … causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on …
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Lifetime labor supply in a search model of unemployment
Bettendorf, Leon; Broer, Dirk Peter - 2003
pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333255
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Wages and employment in a random social network with arbitrary degree distribution
Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 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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Asian American discrimination in Harvard admissions
Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - In: European economic review : EER 144 (2022), pp. 1-17
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