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 …

gap is left unexplained. In sum, these results are consistent with the presence of income discrimination towards females …

A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher … comes to the overeducation of second-generation immigrants. Using a matched employer-employee database for Belgium over the … immigrants. …

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 …

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 …