Germany can be regarded as a showcase for labor market reforms. Moreover, its labor market responded only mildly to the …

Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success …

This study surveys the development of the East German labor market after the unification of Germany. We explain that in … active labor market policy, are only partly reported as unemployment. A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of labor … have alleviated social burdens from unemployment. Discussing what causes the high unemployment in the east, we claim that …

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment … in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of … Germany. Our results indicate that separated migrants have a relatively slow reintegration into the labor market. We explain …

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally … the degree of assimilation in Germany, which is consistent with a switch of migrants' reference point from home countries …

of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us … unemployment in the countries hit by the crisis. …

location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany to identify …