全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP12030 Unemployment Insurance and Reservation Wages: Evidence from Administrative Data

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP12030
	DP12030 Unemployment Insurance and Reservation Wages: Evidence from Administrative Data
	Roland Rathelot; Thomas Le Barbanchon; Alexandra Roulet
发表日期	2017-05-08
出版年	2017
语种	英语
摘要	Although the reservation wage plays a central role in job search models, empirical evidence on the determinants of reservation wages, including key policy variables such as unemployment insurance (UI), is scarce. In France, unemployed people must declare their reservation wage to the Public Employment Service when they register to claim UI benefits. We take advantage of these rich French administrative data and of a reform of UI rules to estimate the effect of the potential benefit duration (PBD) on reservation wages and on other dimensions of job selectivity, using a difference-in-difference strategy. We cannot reject that the elasticity of the reservation wage with respect to PBD is zero. Our results are precise and we can rule out elasticities larger than 0.006. Furthermore, we do not find any significant effects of PBD on the desired number of hours, duration of labor contract and commuting time/distance. The estimated elasticity of actual benefit duration with respect to PBD of 0.3 is in line with the consensus in the literature. Exploiting a regression discontinuity design as an alternative identification strategy, we find similar results.
主题	Labour Economics
关键词	Unemployment insurance Reservation wage
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp12030
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/540842
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Roland Rathelot,Thomas Le Barbanchon,Alexandra Roulet. DP12030 Unemployment Insurance and Reservation Wages: Evidence from Administrative Data. 2017.