-static reservation wages using panel data from Germany from 1987 to 1998. The results suggest that reservation wages are relatively high … in Germany compared to other countries. Furthermore, pooled regression results show that most recent wages and personal …This paper investigates the reservation wages of unemployed persons on the basis of a job-search model with non …

This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in Germany from 1987 to 1998 … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reservation … wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed offered …

Due to labor market reforms in Germany some years ago, the incentives to work changed. The paper analyzes the effects … on the reservation wages for specific groups. It is assumed that reservation wages are determined by the replacement … model for Germany. It turns out that the replacement rates increased in the period 1950 to 1975. Thereafter, the rates for …

This paper deals with the hypothesis of mismatch unemployment in West Germany by calculating skills-specific Beveridge …

private households in Germany. In 2001, the difference is small for households consisting of at least three persons. For three … percent). Thus, the incentives to work are strongly impaired. The downward adjustment of wages for low skilled workers was …

find that in Western Germany alone each new chemical entity has on average saved around 200 working years in every year of …