We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the wages paid by the United Kingdom's National Health Service to examine how … wages affect the duration of time a vacancy is advertised. NHS workers in inner London are mandated by law to be paid an … duration with respect to wages of -6.3. This number is larger than reported by previous studies and suggests that firms can …

higher realized wages and not more matches, because the scale effects on matches are offset by the response of reservation … wages …

Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell …. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …, repeated observations on the same individual provide scant evidence of declining reservation wages …