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Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model, repeated observations on the same individual provide scant...
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. Considerable cross-country differences are observed across the EU regarding both the level and the structure of earnings inequality …
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A thorny problem in identifying the determinants of reservation wages and particularly the role of continued joblessness in their evolution is the simultaneity issue. We deploy a natural control function approach to the problem that involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed...
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discrete hazard analysis is used and the duration dependence is captured with time dummies. In almost all the 14 EU Member … highlight the mechanisms that bring individuals into and out of poverty. -- poverty dynamics ; EU …
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empirical results are similar in qualitative but rather different in quantitative terms across EU countries. State dependence … endogeneity bias. -- poverty dynamics ; EU ; ECHP …
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This paper explores how the diversity of minimum wage systems affects earnings inequalities within European countries. It relies on the combination of (a) harmonized micro-data from household surveys, (b) data on national statutory minimum wages and coverage rates, and (c) hand-collected...
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This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community Household Panel to deduce in the manner of Lancaster and Chesher (1983) additional parameters of a stylized structural search model; specifically, reservation wage and...
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and the EU‐SILC. We focus on poverty profiles depicting poverty duration, recurrence and persistence and, then, on the … demographic events have a stronger effect in the EU‐SILC than the ECHP for poverty entries and weaker for poverty exits; e) The …
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long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal … information of the EU-SILC. In order to approximate chronic material deprivation we use a three-step index of chronic cumulative …) longitudinal poverty. The results reveal considerable differences across EU countries regarding both the level and the structure of …
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