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 …

education shows positive effects for the unemployed with respect to both the employment probability and wages. To explain the …