This paper investigates the reservation wages of unemployed persons on the basis of a job-search model with non …-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 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 …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment … rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search model – even if wages are only … reservation wages, and consider an alternative reservation wage model based on reference dependence in job search. This extension …