We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …

the same period, immigration patterns by country of birth have changed substantially, with an increasing number of … immigrants arriving from non-western countries. The aim of this paper is to explore the link between citizenship and employment … on employment probabilities in both Canada and Sweden. The size of the co-ethnic population has a positive impact for …

. Young workers are the most affected by the Great Recession both in terms of unemployment rates as well as employment rates …. For prime age workers employment rates were also affected but for older workers the Great Recession did not have a large …

affecting the quantity and quality of employment on the demand side of the economy; and c) factors affecting processes of … 'unemployment' and 'poverty' traps, geographical mobility of residence and employment pay discrimination, the 'discouraged worker …

This paper develops a simple model of employment, non-statutory redundancy pay and wage determination. An interesting … bargaining over redundancy pay has no impact on recent employment variation for plants in the sample; and third, that financial …

Almost all studies of skilled/unskilled employment over the 1980s use data on manuals and non-manuals to measure skill …. This paper constructs data on skilled/unskilled employment using occupational data from the UK New Earnings Survey Panel …, subcontracting etc. The major findings are: (a) the ratio of skilled to unskilled employment rose by 4.4%; (b) the averaging effect …