TY - JOUR
T1 - Do Reservation Wages Really Decline?
T2 - Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages
AU - Addison, John T.
AU - Portugal Dias, José Pedro
AU - Centeno, Mário José Gomes de Freitas
PY - 2009/3
Y1 - 2009/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Probability of reemployment
KW - Arrival rate of job offers
KW - Unemployment benefits
KW - Reservation wages
KW - Reservation wages
KW - Probability of reemployment
KW - Unemployment benefits
KW - Arrival rate of job offers
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=60749114999&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12122-008-9057-y
DO - 10.1007/s12122-008-9057-y
M3 - Article
SN - 0195-3613
VL - 30
SP - 1
EP - 8
JO - Journal Of Labor Research
JF - Journal Of Labor Research
IS - 1
ER -