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To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2009.07.001 Byline: Bas van der Klaauw (a), Aico van Vuuren (b) Abstract: The paper develops a structural model for the labor market behavior of students entering the labor market. We explicitly model the trade-off between devoting effort to studying and to job search. Furthermore, we allow for on-the-job search. The model is estimated using a unique data set of individuals who completed undergraduate education in the Netherlands between 1995 and 2001. Our estimation results show that labor market returns of high grades are low. Wage increases between jobs are explained by labor market friction rather than returns of early work experience. Our results indicate that a 1 percentage point decrease in the unemployment rate increases wage offers on average by 3 percent, but that the amount of job search effort is not very sensitive to business cycle fluctuations. Policy simulations show that study effort and hence academic achievement are much more sensitive to financial incentives than job search effort and labor market outcomes. Author Affiliation: (a) Department of Economics, VU University Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute and CEPR, De Boelelaan 1105, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands (b) Department of Economics, VU University Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute, De Boelelaan 1105, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Article History: Received 1 June 2007; Accepted 4 July 2009

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.08.003 Byline: Maarten Lindeboom (a), Ana Llena-Nozal (b), Bas van der Klaauw (c) Keywords: Returns to education; Intergenerational mobility; Health; Regression-discontinuity Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school leaving age in the UK. Findings based on data from the National Child Development Study suggest that increasing the school leaving age by 1 year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic opportunities by reducing financial difficulties among households. Author Affiliation: (a) VU University Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute, HEB & Netspar, The Netherlands (b) OECD, France (c) VU University Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute & CEPR, The Netherlands Article History: Received 20 December 2006; Revised 2 June 2008; Accepted 28 August 2008

To purchase or authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2354.2006.00399.x Byline: Gerard J. van den Berg ([dagger]), Bas van der Klaauw ([dagger]1) Abstract: We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data concerning a social experiment with full randomization and compliance. The results do not provide evidence that counseling and monitoring affect the exit rate to work. Monitoring causes a shift from informal to formal job search. We combine our empirical results with the results from our theoretical analysis and the existing empirical literature, to establish a comprehensive analysis of the effectiveness of these policies. Author Affiliation: ([dagger])Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, IFAU-Uppsala, Sweden, and IZA, Germany; Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Tinbergen Institute, The Netherlands

We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data concerning a social experiment with full randomization and compliance. The results do not provide evidence that counseling and monitoring affect the exit rate to work. Monitoring causes a shift from informal to formal job search. We combine our empirical results with the results from our theoretical analysis and the existing empirical literature, to establish a comprehensive analysis of the effectiveness of these policies.

A study is made on the individual transition rate from welfare to work, which is influenced by features of the neighborhood they live in. Three groups of welfare recipients are distinguished.

In this article we introduce a test for the normality assumption in the sample selection model. The test is based on a flexible parametric specification of the density function of [...]

In a non-stationary job search model we allow unemployed workers to have a permanent option to leave the labour force. Transitions into nonparticipation occur when reservation wages drop below the utility of being nonparticipant. Taking account of these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer distribution. We estimate the structural model with individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and use simulated maximum likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings provide micro evidence that the job search environment of unemployed workers is non-stationary because of loss of skills.

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France. The distribution of the inflow composition is estimated along with the other parameters. The estimation method deals with differences between the micro and macro unemployment definitions. The results also show to what extent the unemployment duration distributions corresponding to the two definitions can be described by the same model. [C] 2001 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved. JEL classification: J64; C41; E24; C51 Keywords: Unemployment composition; Heterogeneity; Duration dependence; Business cycle; Seasons; Unemployment definition