An aside that's probably relevant here is how the welfare state here deals with the unemployed: if you refuse a job offer, you cease being eligible for any welfare. This can (and does at times) push people to accept jobs where their cost of commuting takes up almost their entire income and leaves them worse off than the relatively small amount they were getting as welfare.

In a sense, you can be pushed to accept a job at an infeasibly low wage because the alternative is having no income at all.