and non-random hiring. Since they accept lower wages, firms obtain a higher match surplus from hiring immigrants rather … firms. Using US data, I show in my empirical analysis that among low-skilled workers undocumented immigrants earn 8% less … and have a 7 pp higher job finding rate than documented immigrants. Parameterizing the model based on these estimates, I …

the German Socioeconomic Panel up to the year 2006 in order to investigate the economic performance of immigrants. We … perform regressions of three pooled cross sections (1986, 1996, 2006) to estimate assimilation and quality of immigrants as … reflected by their earnings. Further we take the heterogeneity of immigrants into account by separating them by country of …

, overall, education and in particular labor market experience accumulated in the home countries of the immigrants receive … human capital of immigrants across countries. Finally, imperfect human capital transferability appears to be a major factor … in explaining the wage differential between natives and immigrants. …

employment. First, I estimate the remuneration to personal characteristics for Germans and immigrants across the wage … inequality between skill groups for Germans relative to immigrants. The returns to skill for the highest educational attainment … are higher for Germans across the wage distribution compared to immigrants. But within-group inequality for the group with …

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 …

immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with … otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries, with good German language skills … gap. Immigrants are initially less likely to participate in the labor market and more likely to be unemployed. While …