offers, the determinants of reservation wages, transitions out of unemployment, and accepted wages. In this exploratory … wages do decline with the jobless spell (and aggregate unemployment); that transitions out of unemployment exhibit strong … negative duration dependence for reasons that have more to do with the arrival rate of job offers than with reservation wages …

This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community …

Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell …. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …, repeated observations on the same individual provide scant evidence of declining reservation wages. -- Reservation wages …

This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community … elasticities are computed for the United Kingdom and eleven other European nations. -- Reservation wages ; probability of … reemployment ; accepted wages ; unemployment benefits ; arrival rate of job offers ; wage offer distributions …

Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell …. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …, repeated observations on the same individual provide scant evidence of declining reservation wages. …