TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Latreille, Paul L.
AU  - Blackaby, David H.
AU  - Murphy, Philip D.
AU  - O'Leary, Nigel C.
AU  - Sloane, Peter J.
        TI  - How Far and For How Much? Evidence on Wages and Potential Travel-to-Work Distances from a Survey of the Economically Inactive
        PY  - 2006/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1976
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1976
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - economic inactivity
KW  - reservation wages
KW  - travel-to-work distances
        ER  -