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This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and …-Economic Panel) provides an interesting perspective on how reservation wages change over time and how they correlate with accepted …
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their future outcomes are determined by external factors have lower reservation wages. …
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their future outcomes are determined by external factors have lower reservation wages. …
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Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects are hard to identify without model assumptions. We develop a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job-search behavioral outcomes, like the reservation wage,...
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This paper presents findings from a survey of 6,025 unemployed workers who were interviewed every week for up to 24 weeks in the fall of 2009 and spring of 2010. Our main findings are: (1) the amount of time devoted to job search declines sharply over the spell of unemployment; (2) the...
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Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects are hard to identify without model assumptions. We develop a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job-search behavioral outcomes, like the reservation wage,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277327
In this paper, we contribute to the literature on the impact of the unemployment benefit on (reservation) wages. We use … reform of 2005 in Germany. Using this unique experiment, we find strong evidence that a lower unemployment benefit has an … adverse effect on wages. …
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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. Furthermore, pooled regression results show that most recent wages and personal …
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This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in Germany from 1987 to 1998 … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reserva …­tion wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemploy­ment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed …
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Do reported reservation wages correspond to the concept of reservation wages in search theory? To answer this question …, reservation wages are calculated on the basis of stationary search theory and on job-search success observations of unemployed … persons in order to compare them with reported reservation wages from the Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP). It is shown that for …
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