sharply over the spell of unemployment; (2) the self-reported reservation wage predicts whether a job offer is accepted or … rejected; (3) the reservation wage is remarkably stable over the course of unemployment for most workers, with the notable … devoted to job search and the reservation wage help predict early exits from Unemployment Insurance (UI) …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings …

We estimate the causal effect of parents' unemployment on unemployment among their children in their own adulthood. We …) identification strategy using parents' job loss during a mass layoff as the instrument. We find evidence of unemployment inheritance … in the next generation. An additional day of unemployment during childhood causally raises the average unemployment days …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes such as … wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment …. Labor market training is helping workers to ameliorate these negative effects and is remarkably on the spot. For workers who …

to substantial differences in labor-market equilibrium between bargained and posted wages. The fraction of workers hired …

labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of … occupational licensing is an important labor market phenomenon that can be measured in labor force surveys …

Eastern Europe has played an important role in this development. The derived labor market consequences are not fully clear so … Europe. Trade does not affect wages at all, and hardly affect employment. Thus one can expect that, while the Austrian labor … market might be somewhat negatively affected by the East enlargement of the EU, the German labor market will not …