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A Structural Estimation to Evaluate the Wage Penalty After Unemployment in Europe

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  • Yolanda Rebollo Sanz

    () (Department of Economics, Universidad Pablo de Olavide)

  • José Ignacio García-Pérez

    () (Department of Economics, Universidad Pablo de Olavide)

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We develop a partial equilibrium job search model to analyse wage mobility and its relation to job mobility. The basic job search model is generalized by introducing wage renegotiation at the firm level and on-the-job search. Besides we model the value of leisure as a function of the previous wage. We present a semi-structural estimation using data on employment and wages for men 20 to 60 years old from the European Community Household Panel (Spain, Germany, France and Portugal). The estimated parameters from the model are then used to identify the sources of the wage loss associated with unemployment. German and Spanish workers tend to suffer larger wage penalties than their French and Portuguese counterparts. Wage losses in Germany are mainly related to better wage opportunities when employed. In Spain wage losses tend to remain longer since on the job wage growth is lower. We also evaluate the effect of the Unemployment Benefit system on wage changes after unemployment and find that a sole level for unemployment benefits (dependent on the national average wage level) reduces wage penalties for all workers with the exception of the highly educated.

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Paper provided by Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 06.26.

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Length: 38 pages
Date of creation: Oct 2006
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Handle: RePEc:pab:wpaper:06.26

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Keywords: Semi-structural estimation; wage mobility; job mobility; search models;

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  1. Jahn, Elke J. & Wagner, Thomas, 2008. "Do Targeted Hiring Subsidies and Profiling Techniques Reduce Unemployment?," Working Papers 08-19, University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics.
  2. José Ignacio García Pérez & Yolanda Rebollo Sanz, 2004. "Wage changes through job mobility in Europe: A multinomial endogenous switching approach," Economic Working Papers at Centro de Estudios Andaluces E2004/70, Centro de Estudios Andaluces.

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