Social policy and labor supply: the impact of activating labor market institutions on reservation wages
- Activation is an efficacious policy paradigm in modern welfare states. Taking the case of Germany, we study the relationship between the embeddedness of benefit recipients in activating labor market institutions and individual labor supply. Using panel data, we estimate the effects of transitions between key institutional states with different degrees of activation on reservation wages (RWs). We show that RWs react to activation: the transition from gainful employment to unemployment benefit receipt leads to an average decrease of 3.1% in RWs. The transition from gainful employment to welfare benefit receipt—an institutional state with far more rigorous activation—leads to a stronger decrease of 4.9%. Mediation analyses show that the income associated with different institutional states is the predominant mechanism that drives the effect on RWs. However, subjective social status also partly mediates the effect. Implications of these findings for active labor market policies are discussed.
Verfasser*innenangaben: | Benjamin Fuchs, Sebastian Prechsl, Tobias WolbringORCiD |
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Dokumentart: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Verlag: | Oxford University Press |
Seitenzahl: | 22 |
Erste Seite: | 1 |
Letzte Seite: | 22 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | labor market institutions; labor supply; social policy; social security; wages; welfare state |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1533-opus-5100 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwac002 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | Socio-Economic Review |
Ausgabe / Heft: | Vol. 00, No. 0 |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 16.02.2022 |
Veröffentlichende Institution: | Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin |
Bereitstellung auf aliceOpen: | 30.07.2022 |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
Open Access: | Open Access |