TY - RPRT AU - Blackaby, David H. AU - Latreille, Paul L. AU - Murphy, Philip D. AU - O'Leary, Nigel C. AU - Sloane, Peter J. TI - An Analysis of Reservation Wages for the Economically Inactive PY - 2006/Feb/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 1980 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1980 AB - This paper uses unique data for the economically inactive to calculate elasticity estimates of the reservation wage and exit probability with respect to state benefits and the arrival rate of job offers, and finds that the inactive react in similar ways to benefit increases as the unemployed. KW - reservation wages KW - economic inactivity ER -