immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labour markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

In this article, I study the effect of worker heterogeneities on wages and unemployment within the context of a …

' labor market behavior, we show that immigrants who enter unemployment when a terrorist event hits their home country are 1 ….8 percentage points more likely to be employed within three months than immigrants who enter unemployment in quiet times. Among … more likely to work part-time. These results suggest that immigrants who enter unemployment in a month with high levels 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 …

increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market … participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the … probabilities show that observed changes in the stocks of registered and unregistered unemployment as well as marginal, contributed …