Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/44173 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5077
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
A thorny problem in identifying the determinants of reservation wages and particularly the role of continued joblessness in their evolution is the simultaneity issue. We deploy a natural control function approach to the problem that involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis confirms that the use of elapsed duration alone compounds two separate and opposing influences. Only with the inclusion of completed duration is the negative effect of continued joblessness on reservation wages apparent. For its part, the completed duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment.
Subjects: 
reservation wages
unemployment duration
control function
JEL: 
J64
J65
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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