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

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 …

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

U.S. labor market in each decade since 1940 and from 1990 to 1995. The results suggest that the relative demand for …

This study provides the first nation-wide analysis of the labor market implications of occupational licensing for the U ….S. labor market, using data from a specially designed Gallup survey. We find that in 2006, 29 percent of the workforce was …

This paper uses aggregate birth year/calendar year level data derived from the Current Population Survey (CPS) to … estimate the effect of Social Security wealth on the labor supply of older men in the 1970s and 1980s. The analysis focuses on … this paper uses time-series variations in benefit levels to estimate the relationship between benefits and labor supply in …

minimum wage law in a low-wage labor market using data from a survey of 167 fast food restaurants in Texas. We draw three main …

Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate by investigating the … joint impact of parental leave and child care, using administrative data covering the labor market and birth histories of …