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

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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.

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  • Christensen, Björn, 2002. "Reservation wages, offered wages, and unemployment duration: new empirical evidence," Kiel Working Papers 1095, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
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    Keywords

    Reservation Wages; Offered Wages; Unemployment Duration; Labour Supply;
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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