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Reservation wages, offered wages, and unemployment duration: new empirical evidence

Christensen, Björn - 2002

This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in Germany from 1987 to 1998, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation wages, offered wages decline considerably with...

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What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2003

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and macroeconomic factors – including aggregate and local unemployment rates, generosity of the unemployment compensation system and characteristics of the wage structure – as well...

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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany?

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

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The Determinants of Reservation Wages in Germany Does a Motivation Gap Exist?

Christensen, Björn - 2001

This paper investigates the reservation wages of unemployed persons on the basis of a job-search model with non-static reservation wages using panel data from Germany from 1987 to 1998. The results suggest that reservation wages are relatively high in Germany compared to other countries....

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The failure of the German labor market

Siebert, Horst - 2003

Der Beitrag analysiert, warum die Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland so hoch ist. Er diskutiert die Rolle der Lohnpolitik … und schlägt eine neue Methode vor, das Produktivitätswachstum bei zunehmender Arbeitslosigkeit zu messen. Die …

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Die Validität erfragter Reservationslöhne: ein Test auf Basis der stationären Suchtheorie

Christensen, Björn - 2003

Spiegeln in Befragungen ermittelte Reservationslöhne valide das wider, was nach der Suchtheorie zu erwarten wäre? Um diese Frage beantworten zu können, werden auf Basis der stationären Suchtheorie unter zu Hilfenahme von empirisch ermittelten Beobachtungen über den Sucherfolg von...

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Lohnmobilität alleinstehender SGB-II-Leistungsempfänger

Koller, Lena - 2011

% geringeren Lohn als zuvor erhielten. Bei 47 % ist der Lohn dagegen um mindestens 5 % gestiegen, die übrigen 12 % hatten kaum …, die vor dem Leistungsbezug einen Lohn im unteren Segment der Lohnverteilung hatten, bei Wiederbeschäftigung einen … signifikant höheren Lohn als vor dem Leistungsbeginn erhielten. Alleinstehende aus dem oberen Lohnsegment hatten hingegen einen …

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HIV, wages, and the skill premium

Marinescu, Ioana E. - 2012

The HIV epidemic has dramatically decreased labor supply among prime-age adults in sub-Saharan Africa. Using within-country variation in regional HIV prevalence and a synthetic panel, I find that HIV significantly increases the capital-labor ratio in urban manufacturing firms. The impact of HIV...

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The Self-Selection of Migrant Workers Revisited

Yashiv, Eran - 2004

Work of low-skilled migrant workers from developing countries in developed economies is a growing phenomenon and a key political and economic issue. An extensive literature has found (for the most part) that these workers come from the lower part of the skill distribution. This paper revisits...

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