Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/17749 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1095
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in Germany from 1987 to 1998, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation 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 wages after nine months of unemployment. Thus, the chance that long-term unem­ployed persons will receive a wage offer that is higher than their own reservation wage is extremely slight.
Subjects: 
Reservation Wages
Offered Wages
Unemployment Duration
Labour Supply
JEL: 
E24
C23
J64
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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