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How Far and For How Much? Evidence on Wages and Potential Travel-to-Work Distances from a Survey of the Economically Inactive

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Paul Latreille () (University of Wales Swansea)
David H. Blackaby () (University of Wales Swansea)
Philip D. Murphy () (University of Wales Swansea)
Nigel O'Leary () (University of Wales Swansea)
Peter J. Sloane () (University of Wales Swansea and IZA Bonn)

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The U.K. government has recently committed itself to an ambitious 80 per cent employment rate target. Recognising that achieving this aspiration will require significant numbers of the economically inactive to (re-)engage with the labour market, the government has enacted various policy reforms seeking to encourage those on the fringes of the labour market to do so. The present paper uses unique survey data to examine three factors relevant to these issues, namely the desire to work, minimum acceptable wages and the distance the inactive are prepared to travel to work for a given minimum acceptable wage offer.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 1976.

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Keywords: economic inactivity; reservation wages; travel-to-work distances;

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J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

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  1. Domenico Tabasso, 2009. "Temporary Contracts and Monopsony Power in the UK Labour Market," Economics Discussion Papers 675, University of Essex, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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