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Endogenous local labour markets, regional aggregation and agglomeration economies

Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2019

administrative data, we define local labour markets (LLMs) based on the worker's commuting outcomes, gender and educational …

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The role of the housing market in workers' resilience to job displacement after firm bankruptcy

Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2017

substantial losses in employment and wage, an increase in the commuting distance and a decrease in the probability of moving home … pronounced, whereas the increase in the commuting distance diminishes. Also, we examine the role of workers' housing tenure in … owners are more rapidly re-employed and experience a smaller increase in the commuting distance, but experience also a higher …

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Fired and pregnant: gender differences in job flexibility outcomes after job loss

Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2020

We study whether women and men cope with job loss differently. We use 2006-2017 Dutch administrative monthly microdata and a quasi-experimental design involving job displacement because of firm bankruptcy. We find that displaced women are more likely than displaced men to take up a flexible job...

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Tax policy, location choices, and market structure

Pfann, Gerard A.; Kranenburg, Hans L. van - 2002

for daily newspapers in the Netherlands. The econometric analysis uses data on when and where the newspapers existed and …

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Survival in a concentrating industry : the case of daily newspapers in the Netherlands

Kranenberg, Hans L. van; Palm, Franz C.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2002

market for daily newspapers in The Netherlands from 1950 to 1996. We present a brief overview of the exit literature. On the …

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Worker separations in a nonstationary corporate environment

Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2000

This paper investigates differences in worker turnover characteristics between periods of workforce expansion and contraction in a firm. We derive a Cox proportional hazard model from a simple model of job separation based on the expected surpluses from the firm and its workers. We account for...

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Options to quit

Pfann, Gerard A. - 2000

This paper develops a theoretical model of a worker's decision problem under uncertainty about the optimal separation time, when holding a representative outside offer but facing fixed costs of quitting. Implications of the model's closed form solution are consistent with the quit behavior of...

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Roads leading to self-employment : comparing transgenerational entrepreneurs and self-made start-ups

Blumberg, Boris; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2015

This paper studies the event history of business foundation. Three theoretical concepts of human, financial and social capital are linked to investigate variations over time of people's decision processes to become self-employed. Data from a cohort of Dutch inhabitants born in 1939/1940 who have...

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Social capital and the uncertainty reduction of self-employment

Blumberg, Boris; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001

We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...

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Downsizing

Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001

Optimal layoff rules in closed form are derived for all workers in a firm that downsizes under uncertainty and faces heterogeneous firing costs. The theoretical model predicts that the firm displaces workers with low firing costs, low expected future productivity growth, and low layoff option...

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