In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of … unemployment spells as a result of increased immigration. Increased trade with Central and East European Countries (CEECs) seems to …

the observed patterns of the fast decrease in unemployment as immigrants first find blue-collar jobs and attend training …

unemployment. Taking account of the mean reversion in unemployment we find no detrimental effect of immigration. Similar results …We analyse the impact of increased immigration on labour market outcomes of natives in Germany using a dataset of … county-level variables for the late 1980s. We study two measures of immigration, the change in the share of foreigners …

the programme) comes mainly from the impact of training on the job offer probabilities and, consequently, on unemployment …

future developments of the Dutch economy, and surveys the political-economic debate in the Netherlands. The focus is on the … unemployment problem, still unsolved and therefore important for policy analysis. Several constraints for unemployment policy …

Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host … family immigration in a framework where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This allows us to …, we can study the eect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self-reinforce immigrants' and …

in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …

One of the most controversial aspects of immigration policy is the impact of foreigners on labour market outcomes of … second part we offer a further argument for a potential detrimental effect of immigration: if wages are negotiated at the …