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 …

and 'services' are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and … services reduces unemployment whereas a tax cut on goods has no effect. A reform involving tax differentiation, with lower …

This paper explores the effects of a major reform of unemployment benefits in Germany on the labor market outcomes of … unemployment benefits for older workers. This work analyzes the reform in a wider framework of institutional interactions, which … decrease in the number of days in unemployment benefits and increase in the number of days in employment. However, they also …

This paper explores the effects of a major reform of unemployment benefits in Germany on the labor market outcomes of … unemployment benefits for older workers. This work analyzes the reform in a wider framework of institutional interactions, which … decrease in the number of days in unemployment benefits and increase in the number of days in employment. However, they also …

employer and may choose to remain unemployed rather than to accept a low-wage job. In this case, unemployment can serve as a … signal of productivity, and duration of unemployment may be positively related to post-laid-off wages even among workers who … are not recalled. In contrast, because workers whose plant closed cannot be recalled, longer unemployment for them should …

This paper evaluates the impact of large changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in different economic … unemployment spells and career histo-ries over twenty years from Germany. We find that increases in UI have small to modest effects … UI during recessions do not lead to lasting increases in unemployment duration, nor can they explain differ-ences in …