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 …

We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …

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

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 …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

This paper views movements in unemployment as the result of the interaction between: (a) lags in labour market … decisions; and (b) labour market shocks with temporary and permanent components. Two features of unemployment dynamics are … examined: (i) `unemployment persistence', arising when temporary shocks have persistent effects on unemployment; and (ii …

reduces unemployment duration but increases incidence with an ambiguous effect on overall employment. A firing tax has the … offsets the distortions on the job destruction margin induced by unemployment compensation and employment protection policy …