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. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …
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In this paper we analyze the relationship between social networks and the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. It is believed that networks convey useful information in the job search process such that individuals with larger networks should experience a higher productivity of informal...
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This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …
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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 …
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enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the … work which has examined the association between employee wages and unemployment – the 'wage curve' …
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Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …
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We use individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 to compare the probability that employed and unemployed job seekers find a job and the quality of the job they find. The job finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed job seekers, and this...
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impact of unemployment benefit rules and measures increasing the arrival rate of job offers are concerned. These key …
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Our findings suggest the existence of a gender reservation wage gap. The presence of children, particularly pre-school age children, plays an important role in determining the proportion of this gap that can be explained by individual characteristics. For individuals without children, the...
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In this paper we analyse the role of wage expectations in an empirical model of incomplete spells of unemployment and … reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment, reservation wages and expected wages simultaneously for … econometric framework was found to influence the magnitude of the key elasticities: namely the elasticity of unemployment duration …
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