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Great expectations: past wages and unemployment durations
Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2010
overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after … observed productivity. -- unemployment ; job search ; overconfidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009241804
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Great expectations : past wages and unemployment durations
Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2010
overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344871
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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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What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data
Prasad, Eswar S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10005703730
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To shape the future : how labor market entry conditions affect individuals s long-run wage profiles
Brunner, Beartice; Kuhn, Andreas - 2009
We study the long-run effects of initial labor market conditions on wages for a large sample of male individuals entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a robust negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages. This initial effect turns out to be quite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343912
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238837
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369825
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Has the Dutch miracle come to an end?
Ours, Jan C. van - 2003
In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507711