Remittances are large and have grown substantially over the past decade in the Pacific region. This primarily reflects … the impact of emigration due to low growth and limited employment prospects at home. Many Pacific emigrants settle abroad … that the altruistic motive for remittances remains much stronger in the Pacific region than in the rest of Asia, where …

The paper analyzes why Germany experiences the high and sticky unemployment. It looks at wage policy and proposes a new … approach to measure productivity growth when unemployment increases. It studies the position of trade unions and the …

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 …

be Pareto-distributed. In the limiting case where the unemployment rate goes to zero, the aggregate production function … market conditions such as unemployment and workers' reservation wage. I simulate the model and examine its predictions for …

This paper analyses the effect of labour taxes on Euro area unemployment. Empirical estimates obtained so far can be … area unemployment, we find a significant tax effect that is in the middle of the estimates that can be found in the … empirical literature. This study gives support to the view that lowering labour taxes can help to reduce unemployment in …

workers who transitioned from unemployment to being employed. Using sample data from Monthly Employment Survey (PME, 2000 …This paper analyzes the influence of unemployment on occupational reinsertion, specifically on the wage earned by the … unemployment and wage loss. The results show a heterogeneous chance to remain unemployed, in favor, mainly, of less qualified …

Italy report, on average, higher reservation wages than in Central and Northern Italy, despite much higher unemployment in … found employment in the eight-year period covered by the survey is lower than the reservation threshold indicated in the … 14%. In this article we revisit the debate on the role of wage expectations in influencing unemployment and its regional …

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). …

particular focus on the influence of unemployment duration. Data from the Estonian Labour Force Survey 2011–2013 and instrumental … characteristics, the household’s income level and the regional unemployment rate are important factors that affect reservation wage … setting. In addition, it appears that unemployment duration has a significant negative influence on the reservation wage …