using a random spatial effect model. We find that migration contributes to convergence in regional skill endowments across …This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the …

of the unemployment experience are taken into account: i) displacement risk, measured by the probability of moving from … employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … the effect is positive in the most recent periods. For native transition from employment to unemployment a complementary …

-term labor contracts that lead to wage rigidities and unemployment. Reflecting the interdependence of regional labor markets, we …

workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

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 …

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …