Job Search by Unemployed Women: Determinants of the Asking Wage

This study uses actual observations of reservation wages from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women who were 35 to 49 years of age in 1972 to estimate, with a two-stage least squares procedure, a model of the jobsearch behavior of unemployed women. To a greater extent than shown by most p...

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Published in:Industrial & labor relations review 1980-04, Vol.33 (3), p.368-378
Main Author: Sandell, Steven H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior
Behavior/Behavioral
Employment
Job hunting
Job/Jobs
Labor force
Labor markets
Least squares
Least Squares Statistics
Regression analysis
Reservation
Search
Statistical analysis
Unemployed/Unemployment
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance
Unemployment rates
Wage rates
Wage surveys
Wages
Wages & salaries
Women
Work/Works/Working
Working women
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Summary:This study uses actual observations of reservation wages from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women who were 35 to 49 years of age in 1972 to estimate, with a two-stage least squares procedure, a model of the jobsearch behavior of unemployed women. To a greater extent than shown by most previous studies, the results indicate that unemployed women substantially reduce their reservation wages as the period of their unemployment progresses. Also, recipients of unemployment insurance are shown to ask for wages that are substantially higher than those asked for by other unemployed women.
ISSN:0019-7939
2162-271X
DOI:10.1177/001979398003300307