reservation wages, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The longitudinal aspect of the dataset provides an interesting … perspective on the dynamics of reservation wages and their correlations with accepted wage offers for workers who make the …

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime … income in East Germany. The difference in biases in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime … income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …

decline in the demand for and the real wages of this group after 2000. We investigate empirically, whether there has been a … similar trend in Germany. Based on comprehensive, long-run administrative data for the years 1975 to 2010, we use a set of … education attainment and wages over time, we put a particular focus on changes of the task composition, the chances of entering …

This paper provides precise figures on the incidence and wage penalties of mismatching in Germany. We use the BIBB … characteristics. We also examine wage penalties for mismatching in Germany, considering a large number of controls for workers and, in … results indicate that large shares of over- or under-educated workers in Germany have skills that correspond to the skill …