We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare …

study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and … exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental variable estimation. In our sample of recent immigrants, linear … endogeneity of naturalization most coefficients decline in magnitude and lose statistical significance: male immigrants' labor …

total number of outflows from unemployment into employment at the regional level. To answer this question, we use data for …-seekers subject to unemployment insurance. As microeconometric evaluation studies show, the search effectiveness of programme …

of immigrants and provides information on language skills. We find significant effects of age at migration on educational … attainment and a critical age of migration around age 6. The educational attainment of female immigrants responds more strongly …

and vacancies. An essential part of many reforms of the unemployment benefit system such as in Germany intended to … effects on the matching efficiency of a number of ALMPs, but the effects partly differ between high and low unemployment …

instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …

. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …