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What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2006
macroeconomic factors - including the unemployment rate and generosity of the unemployment compensation system - as well as … individual-specific determinants, such as human capital proxies and length of unemployment spell. The longitudinal dataset … for workers who move from unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783021
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What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2021
macroeconomic factors - including aggregate and local unemployment rates, generosity of the unemployment compensation system and … capital, length of unemployment spell and alternative income sources. The longitudinal aspect of the dataset (the German Socio … wage offers for workers who make the transition from unemployment to employment. The findings have important policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320159
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What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2003
macroeconomic factors – including aggregate and local unemployment rates, generosity of the unemployment compensation system and … capital, length of unemployment spell and alternative income sources. The longitudinal aspect of the dataset (the German Socio … wage offers for workers who make the transition from unemployment to employment. The findings have important policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262105
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IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample
Klose, Christoph; Haas, Anette; Bender, Stefan - 2000
social insurance system. Supplementary information on establishments and on unemployment periods in which a claimant received …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262342
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Homo reciprocans: survey evidence on prevalence, behavior and success
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267940
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Worker beliefs about outside options
Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; Roussille, Nina; … - 2021
Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801411
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An Essay on Collective Bargaining and Unemployment in Germany
Ulman, Lloyd; Gerlach, Knut - 2014
1950s? As the millennium approached, Germany's inflation rate was very low; its unemployment rate unacceptably high; and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030248
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Worker Beliefs About Outside Options
Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; rousssille, nina; … - 2022
Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083951
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IAB employment subsample 1975-1995 : opportunities for analysis provided by the anonymised subsample
Klose, Christoph; Haas, Anette; Bender, Stefan - 2000
social insurance system. Supplementary information on establishments and on unemployment periods in which a claimant received …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325668
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Labor Market Segmentation and the Earnings of German Guestworkers
Constant, Amelie F.; Massey, Douglas S. - 2003
In this paper we study the occupational progress and earnings attainment of immigrants in Germany over time and compare them to native Germans. Our analysis is guided by the human capital and segmented labor market theories. To assess the separate effects of occupational segmentation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272305