postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …

. Heterogeneity in unemployment and transition rates differ between East and West Germany, as well as between the sexes. In East …The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions … between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend …

from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we decompose differences in employment status transition rates between economic … role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further …