Do reservation wages really decline? Some international evidence on the determinants of reservation wages?
Addison, John T. ; Centeno, Mário ; Portugal, Pedro
2009
30
1
Winter
1-8
unemployment benefit ; wage determination
Wages and wage payment systems
English
Bibliogr.
"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."
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