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Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages
Addison, John T.; Centeno, Mário; Portugal, Pedro - 2021
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 evidence of declining reservation wages …
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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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Reservation Wages, Expected Wages and the Duration of Unemployment : Evidence from British Panel Data
Brown, Sarah - 2009
reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment, reservation wages and expected wages simultaneously for … based on the British Household Panel Survey, suggest that WFTC eligibility served to increase expected wages and that … expected wages are positively associated with reservation wages. In addition, incorporating wage expectations into the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764695
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The Nonlinear Link between Height and Wages : An Empirical Investigation
Hübler, Olaf - 2011
This article investigates the relationship between individual wages and height using the German Socio-Economic Panel … height effects on wages are curvilinear. During the considered period from 1985 to 2004 we observe a slightly nonlinear … falling trend. After controlling for time effects a nonlinear relationship between individual height and wages remains with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756948
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Anatomy of Welfare Reform Evaluation : Announcement and Implementation Effects
Blundell, Richard W. - 2011
This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and explicitly allows for announcement and implementation effects. We explore several mechanisms through which women can respond to the announcement of a reform that increases in-work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119013
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Maternal Gender Role Attitudes, Human Capital Investment, and Labour Supply of Sons and Daughters
Johnston, David W. - 2012
Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we investigate the role of maternal gender role attitudes in explaining the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children's later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104663
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Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
Blundell, Richard W. - 2013
We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle. We analyze both the short run incentive effects and the longer run implications of such programs. By allowing for risk aversion and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082137
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Differences by Degree : Evidence of the Net Financial Rates of Return to Undergraduate Study for England and Wales
Walker, Ian - 2010
This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK by subject studied. We use data from the recent UK Labour Force Surveys which provide a sufficiently large sample to consider the effects of the subject studied, class of first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136727
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University Selectivity and the Graduate Wage Premium : Evidence from the UK
Walker, Ian - 2017
We study the relative labour market wage outcomes of university graduates in the UK using the Labour Force Survey (LFS), matched to mean standardised admission scores at the institution *subject* cohort level using data on high school achievement scores of students admitted to these courses....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963835
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The Problem of Overskilling in Australia and Britain
Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Leary, Nigel C. - 2021
This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses unique information in the WERS and HILDA surveys on reported overskilling in the workplace. To a degree, the overskilling information overcomes the problem of unobserved ability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316738