-marketsituation component, I find that the unemployment rate of immigrants would lie at 5.6 percentagepoints for zero native unemployment (the …In Germany, immigrant unemployment is not only higher than native unemployment; italso reacts more to changes in the … situation on the labor market. Decomposing the gapbetween native and immigrant unemployment into a baseline and a labor …

This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation and unemployment by integrating job search with … that the age pattern of search unemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new concept of 'voluntary …' unemployment that agrees well with observations. …

to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …

market institutions. Countries are linked by tradein goods and non-cooperatively set unemployment benefits to maximize …. Additionally, we findthat the optimal level of unemployment benefits is independent from the level of unemploymentbenefits abroad … and that non-cooperatively set unemployment rates areinefficiently high. …

. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion for the US is consistent with an unemployment rate of 4 …

quantitatively underestimates the correlation of structural unemployment rates across countries. This mirrors the well-known finding … by Shimer (2005) by which thestandard search-and-matching model predicts too small fluctuations of unemployment rates …

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 …