otherwise identical workers result in wage inequality and differences in unemployment rates. The paper is related to theoretical … wage on average and face a lower unemployment rate. Numerical computations for the specific case in which connections …

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 …

in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous … equilibrium, blacks end up with both higher unemployment rates and lower wages than whites. Furthermore, it takes more time for …

becoming junior medical specialist. To deal with selectivity, we simultaneously model the transitions from unemployment to … trainee, from unemployment to medical assistant, from medical asistant to trainee and from medical assistant to unemployment …

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 …

This paper uses longitudinal survey data to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment in Russia. We examine … remarkably similar across the different unemployment definitions and model specifications. Therefore, despite the formidable …