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Job search: Intensity and reservation wage in the Spanish labour market

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  • Andrés José Picazo Tadeo

    (Universidad de Alicante)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to illustrate that, under certain assumptions, the influence of unemployment benefits (UB) on the efficiency in labour allocation depends crucially on the way UB affect Job search. Individual Job search is influenced by UB in a twofold way: decreasing search intensity and increasing reservation wage. While the former lowers the discounted value of individual lifetime production, the latter has an ambiguous effect on such value. In order to separate empirically one effect from each other, a bivariate probit model with partial observability is estimated using individual data. El objetivo de este trabajo es mostrar que, bajo ciertas condiciones, la influencia del seguro de desempleo [UB] sobre la eficiencia en la asignación del trabajo depende crucialmente del modo en que tales prestaciones afectan a la búsqueda de empleo. El proceso de búsqueda por parte de un desempleado se ve influenciado por el seguro de paro a través de dos vías: reduciendo la intensidad de búsqueda e incrementando el salario de reserva. Mientras a través de la primera vía se reduce el valor descontado de la producción futura del desempleado, la última ejerce un efecto ambiguo sobre tal valor. Para separar empíricamente ambos efectos, en el trabajo se estima un modelo probit bivariatne con observabilidad parcial utilizando datos individuales.

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  • Andrés José Picazo Tadeo, 1996. "Job search: Intensity and reservation wage in the Spanish labour market," Working Papers. Serie EC 1996-14, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
  • Handle: RePEc:ivi:wpasec:1996-14
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    Keywords

    Búsqueda de empleo; seguro de desempleo Job search; unemployment benefits;
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    JEL classification:

    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
    • J65 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings

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