Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows for larger consumption at home settle for lower entry wages, but …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 …

Shortage of nurses is a problem in several countries. It is an unsettled question whether increasing wages constitute a …,638 individuals over 6 years totalling 69,122 observations. The estimated wage elasticity after controlling for individual …

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime … income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …

. Reservation wages are derived from an explicit utility function in which the most critical taste parameter is assumed to vary both … systematically and randomly across individuals. Market wages are derived from a standard wage equation adjusted to the special … market and reservation wages) and the incentives set up by private pension plans are estimated to be major causes of …

labor supply elasticities were small, recent work has identified three key reasons that the aggregate elasticity may be … estimates for aggregate labor supply. Third, structural estimation of responses along the extensive (i.e., employment) margin …

the micro level means that the aggregate labour supply elasticity is not a structural parameter: any aggregate elasticity …

assumptions about the long run effect of wages rates on labor supply. The available estimates of the wage elasticity of male labor … which men can change their hours of work, and in which wages have been exogenously and permanently changed. We introduce a … function. Our estimates suggest that the elasticity of labor supply is about -0.2, implying that income effects dominate …