Purpose – The goal of the paper is to investigate how reservation wages of older unemployed welfare recipients change once they are no longer subject to standard job search requirements. Design/methodology/approach – The authors apply a regression discontinuity design. Findings –...

Purpose – The goal of the paper is to investigate how reservation wages of older unemployed welfare recipients change once they are no longer subject to standard job search requirements. Design/methodology/approach – The authors apply a regression discontinuity design. Findings –...

Purpose – This paper examines whether deregistration from the employment office decreases unemployment duration in urban Russia. Design/methodology/approach – Econometric methods of transition data analysis/duration modeling were applied to a dataset on unemployed individuals in order to...