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Do Reservation Wages Really Decline?: Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages
Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model, repeated observations on the same individual provide scant evidence of declining reservation wages.Reservation wages, probability of reemployment, unemployment benefits, arrival rate of job offers
Reservation Wages, Search Duration, and Accepted Wages in Europe
This paper uses data from the European Community Household Panel, 1994-99, to investigate the arrival rate of job offers, the determinants of reservation wages, transitions out of unemployment, and accepted wages. In this exploratory treatment, we report that the arrival rate of job offers declines precipitously with jobless duration and age; that reservation wages do decline with the jobless spell (and aggregate unemployment); that transitions out of unemployment exhibit strong negative duration dependence for reasons that have more to do with the arrival rate of job offers than with reservation wages; and that the decline in reemployment wages with joblessness closely shadows the corresponding fall in reservation wages.
Key Elasticities in Job Search Theory: International Evidence
This paper exploits the informational value of search theory, after Lancaster and Chesher (1983), in conjunction with survey data on the unemployed to calculate key reservation wage and duration elasticities for most EU-15 nations.
Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages
Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, repeated observations on the same individual provide scant evidence of declining reservation wages.
Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach
This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community Household Panel to deduce in the manner of Lancaster and Chesher (1983) additional parameters of a stylized structural search model; specifically, reservation wage and transition/duration elasticities. The informational requirements of this approach are minimal, thereby facilitating comparisons between countries. Further, its policy content is immediate insofar as the impact of unemployment benefit rules and measures increasing the arrival rate of job offers are concerned. These key elasticities are computed for the United Kingdom and eleven other European nations.
Multi-layer study of wave propagation in sunspots
We analyze the propagation of waves in sunspots from the photosphere to the
chromosphere using time series of co-spatial Ca II H intensity spectra
(including its line blends) and polarimetric spectra of Si I 10827 and the He I
10830 multiplet. From the Doppler shifts of these lines we retrieve the
variation of the velocity along the line-of-sight at several heights. Phase
spectra are used to obtain the relation between the oscillatory signals. Our
analysis reveals standing waves at frequencies lower than 4 mHz and a
continuous propagation of waves at higher frequencies, which steepen into
shocks in the chromosphere when approaching the formation height of the Ca II H
core. The observed non-linearities are weaker in Ca II H than in He I lines.
Our analysis suggests that the Ca II H core forms at a lower height than the He
I 10830 line: a time delay of about 20 s is measured between the Doppler signal
detected at both wavelengths. We fit a model of linear slow magnetoacoustic
wave propagation in a stratified atmosphere with radiative losses according to
Newton's cooling law to the phase spectra and derive the difference in the
formation height of the spectral lines. We show that the linear model describes
well the wave propagation up to the formation height of Ca II H, where
non-linearities start to become very important.Comment: Accepted by The Astrophysical Journa
Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach
This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community Household Panel to deduce in the manner of Lancaster and Chesher (1983) additional parameters of a stylized structural search model; specifically, reservation wage and transition/duration elasticities. The informational requirements of this approach are minimal, thereby facilitating comparisons between countries. Further, its policy content is immediate insofar as the impact of unemployment benefit rules and measures increasing the arrival rate of job offers are concerned. These key elasticities are computed for the United Kingdom and eleven other European nations.arrival rate of job offers, wage offer distributions, reservation wages, accepted wages, probability of reemployment, unemployment benefits
Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages
Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model, repeated observations on the same individual provide scant evidence of declining reservation wages.arrival rate of job offers, unemployment benefits, reservation wages, probability of reemployment
Barriers to the development of palliative care in Western Europe
The Eurobarometer Survey of the <i>EAPC Task Force on the Development of Palliative Care in Europe</i> is part of a programme of work to produce comprehensive information on the provision of palliative care across Europe.
Aim: To identify barriers to the development of palliative care in Western Europe.
Method: A qualitative survey was undertaken amongst boards of national associations, eliciting opinions on opportunities for, and barriers to, palliative care development. By July 2006, 44/52 (85%) European countries had responded to the survey; we report here on the results from 22/25 (88%) countries in Western Europe.
Analysis: Data from the Eurobarometer survey were analysed thematically by geographical region and by the degree of development of palliative care in each country.
Results: From the data contained within the Eurobarometer, we identified six significant barriers to the development of palliative care in Western Europe: (i) Lack of palliative care education and training programmes (ii) Lack of awareness and recognition of palliative care (iii) Limited availability of/knowledge about opioid analgesics (iv) Limited funding (v) Lack of coordination amongst services (vi) Uneven palliative care coverage.
Conclusion: Findings from the EAPC Eurobarometer survey suggest that barriers to the development of palliative care in Western Europe may differ substantially from each other in both their scope and context and that some may be considered to be of greater significance than others. A number of common barriers to the development of the discipline do exist and much work still remains to be done in the identified areas. This paper provides a road map of which barriers need to be addressed
The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) Vector Magnetic Field Pipeline: Optimization of the Spectral Line Inversion Code
The Very Fast Inversion of the Stokes Vector (VFISV) is a Milne-Eddington
spectral line inversion code used to determine the magnetic and thermodynamic
parameters of the solar photosphere from observations of the Stokes vector in
the 6173 A Fe I line by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). We report on the modifications made to the
original VFISV inversion code in order to optimize its operation within the HMI
data pipeline and provide the smoothest solution in active regions. The changes
either sped up the computation or reduced the frequency with which the
algorithm failed to converge to a satisfactory solution. Additionally, coding
bugs which were detected and fixed in the original VFISV release, are reported
here.Comment: Accepted for publication in Solar Physic
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