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Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages : Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach
Addison, John T.; Centeno, Mário; Portugal, Pedro - 2021
This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324849
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The Reservation Wage Unemployment Duration Nexus
Addison, John T. - 2010
A thorny problem in identifying the determinants of reservation wages and particularly the role of continued … completed duration is the negative effect of continued joblessness on reservation wages apparent. For its part, the completed … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139949
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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US : New Results
Bargain, Olivier - 2012
We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that own-wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103467
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Comparing Inequality Aversion Across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ
Bargain, Olivier - 2013
We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when controlling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086204
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Welfare, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences : Evidence for Europe and the US
Bargain, Olivier - 2011
Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118277
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Fertility and Female Employment Dynamics in Europe : The Effect of Using Alternative Econometric Modeling Assumptions
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
We investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe estimating dynamic models of labor supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and modeling assumptions related to initial conditions, unobserved heterogeneity and serial correlation...
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Educational and Skills Mismatches : Unravelling Their Effects on Wages Across Europe
Cultrera, Loredana; Mahy, Benoit; Rycx, Francois; … - 2022
This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030833
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The Effect of Migration and Spatial Connectivity on Regional Skill Endowments Across Europe : 1988-2010
Tani, Massimiliano - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the European Union at a time of increased economic integration. Using regional data from Eurostat's Regio database and the open web source Openflight for the period 1998-2010 we test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084161
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Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old : An Analysis for Germany
Gwozdz, Wencke - 2009
This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older). We observe a U-shaped relationship between age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764471
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Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms : Empirical Evidence from Europe
Van Roy, Vincent - 2015
This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016346