Purpose – The goal of the paper is to investigate how reservation wages of older unemployed welfare recipients change … eliminating job search requirements will tend to increase reservation wages. Practical implications – The results correspond to … previous findings in the literature that monitoring leads to lower accepted wages and increased exits rates from unemployment …

Purpose – The goal of the paper is to investigate how reservation wages of older unemployed welfare recipients change … eliminating job search requirements will tend to increase reservation wages. Practical implications – The results correspond to … previous findings in the literature that monitoring leads to lower accepted wages and increased exits rates from unemployment …

Purpose – The goal of the paper is to investigate how reservation wages of older unemployed welfare recipients change … eliminating job search requirements will tend to increase reservation wages. Practical implications – The results correspond to … previous findings in the literature that monitoring leads to lower accepted wages and increased exits rates from unemployment …

gap in desired, realised and reservation wages. Design/methodology/approach The notion of desired wages is applied, which … per cent in desired wages and in realised wages, which supports the view that the gender income gap in expectations … compares well with the realised income gap. The unexplained gender wage gap is larger in desired wages than in reservation …

; their wages are substantially higher than what they would have obtained had they chosen paid work. Furthermore, even after …

white-collar workers in Norway, for the years 1987-1997. The estimation is carried out on two occupational groups: technical …