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Unlocking women's workforce potential in India : quantifying the labour market impact of formalising parttime employment and gender equality in unpaid care work

Dev, Aakash; Sahay, Ratna - 2025

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The signaling effect of biophilic job posts : do applicants trade green for green?

Merriman, Kimberly K.; Kostanski, Sarah A.; Ebrahimi, Nabi - 2025

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Household debt, the labor share and earnings inequality

Robinson, Mark; Silos, Pedro; Vilan, Diego - 2025

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Polluted job search : the impact of poor air quality on reservation wages

Bogaard, Mariët; Künn, Steffen; Palacios, Juan; … - 2024

This paper investigates the impact of air pollution on reservation wages. We use rich survey data on unemployed job seekers in Germany and exploit variation in individual exposure to fine particulate matter (PM10) based on the quasi-random allocation of interview slots to individuals. Our...

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The value of commuting time, flexibility, and job security : evidence from current and recent jobseekers in Flanders

Van Landeghem, Bert G. M.; Dohmen, Thomas; Hole, Arne Risa - 2024

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The value of commuting time, flexibility, and job security : evidence from current and recent jobseekers in Flanders

Van Landeghem, Bert G. M.; Dohmen, Thomas; Hole, Arne Risa - 2024

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Wage expectations and job search

Altmann, Steffen; Mahlstedt, Robert; Rattenborg, Malte; … - 2026

In a field experiment with 9,000 Danish job seekers, we study how unemployed workers’ wage expectations affect job search and re-employment. In our survey, we generate exogenous variation in respondents' wage expectations by informing a random half of them about re-employment wages of...

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Wage expectations and job search

Altmann, Steffen; Mahlstedt, Robert; Rattenborg, Malte Jacob - 2026

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Wage expectations and job search

Altmann, Steffen; Mahlstedt, Robert; Rattenborg, Malte Jacob - 2026

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Mismatch in the Egyptian labor market

Krafft, Caroline; Armas Montalvo, Carmen - 2026

High rates of unemployment and non-participation in the labor market are often attributed to labor market mismatch. This paper examines the mismatch between job seekers' expectations and Egypt's labor market realities. For the non-employed, analyses examine reservation wages and what occupations...

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Real exchange rates and the earnings of immigrants

Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Surovtseva, Tetyana - 2023

We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows...

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Real exchange rates and the earnings of immigrants

Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Surovtseva, Tetyana - 2023

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Real exchange rates and the earnings of immigrants

Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Surovtseva, Tetyana - 2021

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Matching frictions and distorted beliefs : evidence from a job fair experiment

Abebe, Girum; Caria, Stefano A.; Fafchamps, Marcel; … - 2023

We evaluate the impacts of a randomized job-fair intervention in which jobseekers and employers can meet at low cost. The intervention generates few hires, but it lowers participants' expectations and causes both firms and workers to invest more in search as predicted by a theoretical model;...

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Do women ask for less? : evidence from reservation wages in Italy

Scoppa, Vincenzo; Spanò, Idola Francesca - 2025

Gender gaps in labor market outcomes have traditionally been attributed to differences in individual productivity or to discrimination. More recently, several studies have documented the role of gender differences in psychological attitudes. Rather than using data on realized wages, we rely on...

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Cheap search, picky workers? : evidence from a field experiment

Mayr, Harald - 2022

Search frictions impede the labor market. Despite this indisputable fact, it is a priori unclear how job search costs affect search duration and unemployment: lower search costs make it easier to find a job, reducing search duration and unemployment, but may also increase the reservation wage,...

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Cheap search, picky workers? Evidence from a field experiment

Mayr, Harald - 2022

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On the social opportunity cost of unemployment

Johansson, Per-Olov; Kriström, Bengt - 2022

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Indignity of labor : role of occupational prestige in unemployment

Marjit, Baisakhi; Marjit, Sugata; Gupta, Kausik; Kar, Saibal - 2022

Occupational prestige or job status may induce people to remain unemployed even when jobs are available. Thus measured unemployment will always have a voluntary component. Accumulated wealth in a family tends to increase the opportunity cost of job search, more so in a world where job status is...

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Perceived returns to job search

Adams, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, Christopher - 2023

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Perceived returns to job search

Adams, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, Christopher - 2022

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Perceived returns to job search

Adams, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, Christopher - 2022

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The value of commuting time, flexibility, and job security: Evidence from current and recent jobseekers in Flanders

Van Landeghem, Bert G. M.; Dohmen, Thomas; Hole, Arne Risa - 2024

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de, ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015045417

Polluted Job Search: The Impact of Poor Air Quality on Reservation Wages

Bogaard, Mariët; Künn, Steffen; Palacios, Juan; … - 2024

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de, ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015166123

Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2024

We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average significantly overestimate their individual probabilities to separate from their job when employed as well to find a job when unemployed. These biases vary significantly between...

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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023

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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023

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Reservation wages revisited: empirics with the canonical model

Davis, Steven J.; Krolikowski, Pawel M. - 2024

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The accuracy of job seekers' wage expectations

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Schmeißer, Aiko; … - 2024

We study the accuracy of job seekers' wage expectations by comparing subjective beliefs to objective benchmarks using linked administrative and survey data. Our findings show that especially job seekers with low objective earnings potential and those predicted to face a penalty compared to their...

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Marriage, divorce and reservation wages

Bonilla, Roberto; Kiraly, Francis; Malo Ocaña, Miguel Angel - 2024

We present an equilibrium model of inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. In the marital market, men and women are involved in random sequential search for a partner. Men are seen as breadwinners in the family, and therefore in the labour market unemployed men carry out a...

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Sexual objectification of women in media and the gender wage gap : does exposure to objectifying pictures lower the reservation wage?

Carlsson, Frederik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina - 2024

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Sexual objectification of women in media and the gender wage gap : does exposure to objectifying pictures lower the reservation wage?

Carlsson, Frederik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina - 2022

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Appetites grow with age : wage expectations among Slovak men and women

Adamus, Magdalena; Ballová Mikušková, Eva - 2021

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The welfare effects of unemployment insurance in Argentina : new estimates using changes in the schedule of transfers

González Rozada, Martín; Ruffo, Hernán - 2026

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Reservation wages and labor supply

Kesternich, Iris; Schumacher, Heiner; Siflinger, Bettina; … - 2022

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Reservation wages and labor supply

Kesternich, Iris; Schumacher, Heiner; Siflinger, Bettina; … - 2020

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Reservation wages and labor supply

Kesternich, Iris; Schumacher, Heiner; Siflinger, Bettina; … - 2018

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Reservation Wages and Labor Supply

Kesternich, Iris - 2020

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Reservation Wages and Labor Supply

Kesternich, Iris - 2019

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Real Exchange Rates and the Earnings of Immigrants

Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Surovtseva, Tetyana - 2023

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Real Exchange Rates and the Earnings of Immigrants

Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Surovtseva, Tanya - 2023

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Real Exchange Rates and the Earnings of Immigrants

Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Surovtseva, Tanya - 2021

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Matching frictions and distorted beliefs: Evidence from a job fair experiment

Abebe, Girum; Caria, Stefano A.; Fafchamps, Marcel; … - 2023

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de, ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10014480653

Gender gap in reservation wages and the choice of education field

Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa - 2023

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Changes in the Reservation Wage During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan

Kazekami, Sachiko - 2023

This study examines changes in reservation wages during the pandemic using data on desired wages among job seekers in Japan. The effects of occupational characteristics, municipal fear of infection risk, local labor market tightness and financial support on the changes in the reservation wages...

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Estimating the reservation wage across city groups in Colombia : a stochastic frontier approach

Flórez, Luz A.; Melo Becerra, Ligia Alba; Posada, … - 2023

We use the stochastic frontier approach to estimate the reservation wage across different city groups in Colombia. We use the information of GEIH from 2008-2019 of 23 urban cities. We find empirical evidence in favor of the search theory predictions that suggest a positive relationship between...

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Estimating the reservation wage across city groups in Colombia: a stochastic frontier approach

Flórez, Luz A.; Melo Becerra, Ligia Alba; Posada, … - 2021

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Social policy and labor supply : the impact of activating labor market institutions on reservation wages

Fuchs, Benjamin; Prechsl, Sebastian; Wolbring, Tobias - 2023

Activation is an efficacious policy paradigm in modern welfare states. Taking the case of Germany, we study the relationship between the embeddedness of benefit recipients in activating labor market institutions and individual labor supply. Using panel data, we estimate the effects of...

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Gender differences in reservation wages in search experiments

McGee, Andrew D.; McGee, Peter - 2025

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Gender differences in reservation wages in search experiments

McGee, Andrew D.; McGee, Peter - 2023

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Gender differences in reservation wages in search experiments

McGee, Andrew D.; McGee, Peter - 2023

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Discretionary extensions to unemployment insurance compensation and some potential costs for a McCall worker

Ryan, Rich - 2023

Unemployment insurance provides temporary cash benefits to eligible unemployed workers. Benefits are sometimes extended by discretion during economic slumps. In a model that features temporary benefits and sequential job opportunities, a worker's reservation wages are studied when policymakers...

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Estimating duration dependence on re-employment wages when reservation wages are binding

Hernandez Martinez, Victor; Liu, Kaixin; Grice, Richard - 2023

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Reservation Wages and Reservation Prices for Commuting Time, Flexibility, and Job Security

van Landeghem, Bert; Dohmen, Thomas Johannes; Hole, … - 2023

This study examines jobseekers’ preferences for job attributes and explores heterogeneity across sociodemographic groups, based on a choice experiment where approximately 1850 clients of the Flemish Public Employment Service (PES) who became unemployed 5 to 6 months before, and around 2000...

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Turkish returned immigrants' income by gender perspective

Dudu, Selda; Rojo, Teresa - 2023

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Expectations set high : understanding reservation wages in North Macedonia

Petreski, Marjan; Oviedo, Ana María; Cancho, Cesar - 2019

The objectives of this study are to understand the determinants of reservation wages and measure the gap between reservation and market wages in North Macedonia. The study makes use of recently collected information on reservation wages in the Labor Force Survey 2016 and 2017. The analysis...

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Expectations Set High : Understanding Reservation Wages in North Macedonia

Petreski, Marjan - 2019

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Gendered job search : an analysis of gender differences in reservation wages and job applications

Basbug, Gokce; Fernandez, Roberto M. - 2025

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Reservation raises : the aggregate labour supply curve at the extensive margin

Mui, Preston; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2025

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A field experiment on labor market speeddates for unemployed workers

Klaauw, Bas van der; Ziegler, Lennart - 2025

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Firm Premia and Match Effects in Pay vs. Amenities

Humlum, Anders; Rasmussen, Mette; Rose, Evan K. - 2025

This paper develops a new approach to measuring non-wage amenities and com-pensating differentials in the labor market. Using a survey of 20,000 job movers in Denmark, we elicit workers' reservation wage to return to their previous jobs. Our sample contains a large, connected network of firms,...

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Job search assistance for older unemployed in the digital era : evidence from a large scale RCT

Kutai, Ari; Saporta-Eksten, Itay; Schlosser, Analia - 2025

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Reservation wages and workers' valuation of job flexibility : evidence from a natural field experiment

Chen, Kuan-Ming; Ding, Ning; List, John A.; Mogstad, Magne - 2025

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Reservation wages and workers' valuation of job flexibility : evidence from a natural field experiment

Chen, Kuan-ming; Ding, Ning; List, John A.; Mogstad, Magne - 2020

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Reservation Wages and Workers’ Valuation of Job Flexibility : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Chen, Kuan-Ming; Ding, Ning; List, John A.; Mogstad, Magne - 2022

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Reservation Wages and Workers’ Valuation of Job Flexibility : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Chen, Kuan-Ming - 2020

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Reservation Wages and Workers’ Valuation of Job Flexibility : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Chen, Kuan-Ming - 2020

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Perceived Returns to Job Search

Adams-Prassl, Abigail; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; … - 2022

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Indignity of Labor: Role of Occupational Prestige in Unemployment

Marjit, Baisakhi; Marjit, Sugata; Gupta, Kausik; Kar, Saibal - 2022

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Unemployment Insurance and Reservation Wages

Feldstein, Martin S.; Poterba, James M. - 2022

The present paper examines the reservation wages reported by a largesample of unemployed individuals in the United States in May 1976. The majorityof unemployedindividuals report reservation wages that are at least as highas the wage they were paid on their last job. Approximately one-fourth of...

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Unemployment Insurance and Reservation Wages

Feldstein, Martin - 1982

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Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Reservation Wage : Evidence from Japan

Kazekami, Sachiko - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic can change the reservation wage because of changes in people’s preferences due to the risk of infection, the accelerating trend of remote work, and the worsened household economy. Using data from Japan on job seekers’ desired wages, we found that the upward trend of...

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Minimum wage effects on reservation wages

Sousounis, Panos; Lanot, Gauthier - 2022

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Can temporary wage incentives increase formal employment? : experimental evidence from Mexico

Abel, Martin; Carranza, Eliana; Geronimo, Kimberly; … - 2022

Formal sector entry-level jobs in Mexico offer low starting salaries but substantial wage growth. This paper experimentally tests whether a six-months wage incentive can increase formal employment among secondary school graduates. Combining survey and high-frequency social security data, the...

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Great expectations : reservation wages and the minimum wage reform

Fedorets, Alexandra; Filatov, Alexey; Shupe, Cortnie - 2018

We use the German Socio-Economic Panel to show that introducing a high-impact statutory minimum wage causes an increase in reservation wages of approximately 4 percent at the low end of the distribution. The shifts in reservation wages and observed wages due to the minimum wage reform are...

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On the very idea of an efficient wage

Dietsch, Peter - 2018

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