This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community … elasticities are computed for the United Kingdom and eleven other European nations. -- Reservation wages ; probability of … reemployment ; accepted wages ; unemployment benefits ; arrival rate of job offers ; wage offer distributions …

increase in their prices and in German wages. This mechanism is magnified by the low price elasticity of the demand for German …We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in … the case of Germany, which has displayed a significantly lower increase in its labour force than its trade partners …

short-run wages, but fared significantly better in the longer run. Second, we compare labor market outcomes of subsidized … wages of workers would not have differed significantly, if they had been hired in another industry instead. However, we find … significant differences in short-term wages, employment and tenure outcomes across industries. Finally, from a fiscal point of …

Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and … the evolution of the monthly labour earnings distribution and individual economic well-being differently in West Germany … regards to West Germany, we show that the current policy of transforming paid overtime in "working time accounts", which is …

Europe. -- household labor supply ; elasticity ; taxation ; Europe ; US …

preferences. We derive important implications for research on optimal taxation. -- household labor supply ; elasticity ; taxation …

, gender and earner role within the household. Our results show an average elasticity of 0.08 for men and of 0.14 for women as …