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Survey measures of the reservation wage reflect both the consumption-leisure trade-off and job search concerns (the arrival rate of job offers and the wage distribution). We examine what a survey measure of the reservation wage reveals about labor supply when search concerns are absent. To this...
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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Does competition in the labor market affect wage inequality? Standard textbook monopsony models predict that lower employer labor market power reduces wage dispersion. We test this hypothesis using Social Security data from Lithuania. We first fit a two-way fixed effects model to quantify the...
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using repeated cross-sectional data confirms this trend for Norway – the gross wage elasticity for married women decreased …
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retirement age. Wage increases have a modest impact on labor supply. The overall elasticity for nurses is close to zero (like for …
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The concept of the employment threshold plays an important role in the public discussion of unemployment. The employment threshol d is defined as that growth rate of output which is necessary to keep employment constant despite the continuous rise in labour productivity. It is related to the...
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support can be mustered without hurting equity too much. We also investigate the effects of Germany meeting its legal target …
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bracketed in the interval [0.05, 0.80], with the (un-weighted) mean elasticity across the various methods ranging from 0.26 to 0 …
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