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Kesternich, Iris; Schumacher, Heiner; Siflinger, Bettina; … - 2020

Survey measures of the reservation wage reflect both the consumption-leisure trade-off and job search concerns (the arrival rate of job offers and the wage distribution). We examine what a survey measure of the reservation wage reveals about labor supply when search concerns are absent. To this...

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Reservation wages and labor supply

Kesternich, Iris; Schumacher, Heiner; Siflinger, Bettina; … - 2018

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The determinants of reservation wages in Germany : does a motivation gap exist?

Christensen, Björn - 2001

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 …

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Reservation wages, offered wages, and unemployment duration : new empirical evidence

Christensen, Björn - 2002

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 …

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