Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20516 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1252
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper uses data from the European Community Household Panel, 1994-99, to investigate the arrival rate of job offers, the determinants of reservation wages, transitions out of unemployment, and accepted wages. In this exploratory treatment, we report that the arrival rate of job offers declines precipitously with jobless duration and age; that reservation wages do decline with the jobless spell (and aggregate unemployment); that transitions out of unemployment exhibit strong negative duration dependence for reasons that have more to do with the arrival rate of job offers than with reservation wages; and that the decline in reemployment wages with joblessness closely shadows the corresponding fall in reservation wages.
Subjects: 
reservation wages
job offer arrival rates
unemployment duration
reemployment wages
JEL: 
J64
J65
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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