Reservation wages and the earnings capacity of lone and couple mothers: Are wage expectations too high?
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Keywords
Employment; reservation wages; working hours;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J38 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Public Policy
- J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2007-01-14 (Labour Economics)
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