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 …

of large flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. Secondly, it shows that unemployment and aggregate wages …

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 …

in reservation wages of approximately 4 percent at the low end of the distribution. The shifts in reservation wages and … observed wages due to the minimum wage reform are comparable in their magnitude. Additional results show that German citizens … adjust their reservation wages more than immigrants. Moreover, suggestive evidence points to a compensation mechanism in …