This study examines the determinants of the reservation wage of unemployed persons in the Federal Republic of Germany … ambiguity of some explanatory variables. The data basis are unemployed persons leaving the unemployment register within a given … unemployment compensation play minor roles …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill … existence of communities of immigrants before 1960, as instruments. We find no evidence that immigrants crowded-out employment …-biased technology as the theory of directed technologial change would predict. Combining these effects, an increase in employment in a …

explanations for the difference. Employed Americans work roughly 10-15% more hours than Germans. Since American employment ….S., lack of job security, and low social safety net compared to Germany or other European countries may explain the cross …

A model is presented in which people base their labor search strategy on the average wage and the average unemployment …