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The Gender Reservation Wage Gap : Evidence Form British Panel Data
Brown, Sarah - 2011
Our findings suggest the existence of a gender reservation wage gap. The presence of children, particularly pre-school age children, plays an important role in determining the proportion of this gap that can be explained by individual characteristics. For individuals without children, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130787
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A test of the "Krugman hypothesis" for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448440
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A Test between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data
Coles, Melvyn G.; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2003
This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271933
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Do the unemployed accept jobs too quickly? : a comparison with employed job seekers
Longhi, Simonetta - 2015
This paper analyses differences between unemployed and employed job seekers in job finding rates and in the quality of the job found. Compared to the unemployed, employed job seekers have a smaller pool of job offers that they consider acceptable; this leads to lower job finding rates but better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283136
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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319961
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A test of the "Krugman hypothesis" for the United States, Britain, and western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428556
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The gender reservation wage gap : evidence form British panel data
Brown, Sarah; Roberts, Jennifer; Taylor, Karl - 2011
Our findings suggest the existence of a gender reservation wage gap. The presence of children, particularly pre-school age children, plays an important role in determining the proportion of this gap that can be explained by individual characteristics. For individuals without children, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009126043
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Reservation wages, expected wages and the duration of unemployment : evidence from British panel data
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2009
In this paper we analyse the role of wage expectations in an empirical model of incomplete spells of unemployment and … reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment, reservation wages and expected wages simultaneously for … econometric framework was found to influence the magnitude of the key elasticities: namely the elasticity of unemployment duration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808533
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Reservation Wages, Expected Wages and the Duration of Unemployment : Evidence from British Panel Data
Brown, Sarah - 2009
In this paper we analyse the role of wage expectations in an empirical model of incomplete spells of unemployment and … reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment, reservation wages and expected wages simultaneously for … econometric framework was found to influence the magnitude of the key elasticities: namely the elasticity of unemployment duration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764695
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Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages
Addison, John T.; Centeno, Mário; Portugal, Pedro - 2008
. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220082