Why Bother? Understanding the Impact of Financial Obligations on Wage Selectivity
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Keywords
Wage Selectivity; Debt; Unemployment; Online Experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General
- C99 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Other
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2017-04-30 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2017-04-30 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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