Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is … an open question. I study the effect of the conational share in an immigrant’s first job on subsequent labour market … points six or more years after the start of the first job, an effect not observed for non-conational immigrants, with no …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of … life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper … shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any amenity on wages and unemployment rates are of opposite sign …

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

immigrants’ wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … immigration enforcement mutes job creation and raises the unemployment rate of all workers, having an even larger detrimental …

Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is … points six or more years after the start of the first job, an effect not observed for non-conational immigrants, with no …

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …

' 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 …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

job-to-job mobility, independent of the job-offer distribution and other labor-market parameters. Applying our methodology … transitions or compensating differentials—can reconcile our results with the job-to-job mobility seen in the data. Regardless of …