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Do reservation wages really decline? : Some international evidence on the determinants of reservation wages

Addison, John T. (contributor); Centeno, Mário (contributor) - 2008

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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The reservation wage unemployment duration nexus

Addison, John T.; Machado, José A. F.; Portugal, Pedro - 2010

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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Public opinion on immigration : has the recession changed minds?

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2014

It is widely believed that the current recession has soured public attitudes towards immigration. But most existing studies are cross sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces that shift public opinion on immigration. In this paper I use the six rounds of the European Social...

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The slump and immigration policy in Europe

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2014

pressure for tougher immigration policies, governments have been constrained by the composition of immigration and by EU …

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Minimum wage systems and earnings inequalities : does institutional diversity matter?

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2014

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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Unemployment benefits and reservation wages : key elasticities from a stripped-down job search approach

Addison, John T. (contributor); Centeno, Mário (contributor) - 2008

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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Reservation wages, search duration, and accepted wages in Europe

Addison, John T. (contributor); Centeno, Mário (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Refugees, asylum seekers and policy in Europe

Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Key elasticities in job search theory : international evidence

Addison, John T. (contributor); Centeno, Mário (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

survey data on the unemployed to calculate key reservation wage and duration elasticities for most EU-15 nations. …

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European asylum policy

Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor) - 2005

applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached …, even from the point of view of EU citizens. Using an economic framework, it examines scenarios with different degrees of … policy harmonisation and integration among EU countries. Finally, it argues that there is an important role for enhanced …

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