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What to put on and what to keep off the Table? A Politician's Choice of which Issues to address
Sayag, Rei S.; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
At the start of their term, politicians often announce which issue they intend to address. To shed light on this agenda setting, we develop a model in which a politician has to decide whether or not to address a public issue. Addressing an issue means that the politician investigates the issue...
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Unemployment Dynamics in the OECD
Elsby, Michael W.L.; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegul - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
available data for fourteen OECD economies. We thendevise a method to decompose changes in unemployment into contributions … accountedfor by changes in inflow and outflow rates for cases where unemployment deviates fromits flow steady state, as it does in … unemploymentvariation within countries. For Anglo-Saxon economies we find approximately a 15:85inflow/outflow split to unemployment …
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Unemployment Dynamics in the OECD
Elsby, Michael W.L.; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegul - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
We provide a set of comparable estimates for the rates of inflow to and outflow from unemployment using publicly … available data for fourteen OECD economies. We then devise a method to decompose changes in unemployment into contributions … accounted for by changes in inflow and outflow rates for cases where unemployment deviates from its flow steady state, as it …
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The Use of Spatial Filtering Techniques: The Spatial and Space-time Structure of German Unemployment Data
Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …
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Life Satisfaction Differences between Workers and Non-Workers - The Value of Participation per se
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
Is working more than monetary income? This paper attempts to give an answer to this question on the basis of the German Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same household income, the monetary value of participating in...
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Life Satisfaction Differences between Workers and Non-Workers - The Value of Participation per se
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
Is working more than monetary income? This paper attempts to give an answer to this question on the basis of the German Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same household income, the monetary value of participating in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209443
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The Use of Spatial Filtering Techniques: The Spatial and Space-time Structure of German Unemployment Data
Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144396
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Homeownership, Unemployment and Commuting Distances
Kantor, Yuval; Nijkamp, Peter; Rouwendal, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
More than a decade ago Oswald has formulated the thesis that homeownership increases unemployment. Empirical research … new job elsewhere. However, in general for European countries, residential mobility associated with unemployment spells … seekers and commuting costs. We show that decreasing absolute risk aversion implies that the exit rate from unemployment is …
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Social Experiments and Instrumental Variables with Duration Outcomes
Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
This paper examines the empirical analysis of treatment effects on duration outcomes from data that contain instrumental variation. We focus on social experiments in which an intention to treat is randomized and compliance may be imperfect. We distinguish between cases where the treatment starts...
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Wage Dynamics and Promotions inside and between Firms
Silva, Antonio Dias da; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A HREF="http://personal.vu.nl/b.vander.klaauw/promotions.htm">'Journal of Population Economics'</A>, 2011, 24, 1513-1548. <P> We focus on the dynamic relation between wage increases, promotions and job changes. We relate our empirical analyses to the theoretical model of Gibbons and Waldman (1999). In the...</p></a>
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