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 …

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

We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … immigrants to Canada were employed in source country occupations that typically require high levels of cognitive skills, but rely … and manual skills, these discrepancies are larger among immigrants with limited language fluency. …

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 …