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 …

unemployment will always have a voluntary component. Accumulated wealth in a family tends to increase the opportunity cost of job … search, more so in a world where job status is socially important. Thus prosperity and unemployment may go hand in hand … independent of the standard income effect. The paper shows that measured unemployment always may have a voluntary component. In …

outcomes deteriorated as full-time employment population ratios fell, particularly among males; unemployment and welfare use …

disposal is consistent with the official LFS youth unemployment rate increased by a reasonable estimate of the number of …

Central and Southern Europe? This is the question addressed in this paper. Youth unemployment has approached or exceeded 20 …

performance, like unemployment or wage rates, show little departure from recent norms over the first few months of the crisis. The …

higher flexibility at the onset of the crisis contributed to a reduction in the unemployment rates after the crisis, while a …