efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews of Eastern origin …

migrants from outside the EU-15 in Spain. Using our panel dataset we show that immigrants reduce around the half of the initial … associate the improvement in the skill of immigrants to a change in the composition of new entrants. An important mechanism … underlying the assimilation is the higher likelihood of recent immigrants in changing jobs among different sectors and firms, but …

reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

longer hours. By contrast, a higher probability of losing jobs, a longer duration of unemployment, and in general a less …

consistently important determinant of occupational mobility. Our results also show the speed with which the market mechanism takes …

unemployed (e.g., unemployment insurance, job search monitoring, social assistance, wage subsidies). This paper provides a … duration of the different policies, the dynamic pattern of payments along the unemployment spell, and the emergence of taxes … program starts with standard unemployment insurance, then switches into monitored search and, finally, into social assistance …

Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary … externalities created by the influx of immigrants. Second, it presents a stylized model in which human capital accumulation and …

There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and second-generation occupational choice and mobility is … occupational choice for the children of immigrants as well as for natives. Our findings are surprisingly similar for both natives … and immigrants. For both Germans and immigrants, we find that gender significantly and differentially affects occupational …

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more …