immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … immigration enforcement mutes job creation and raises the unemployment rate of all workers, having an even larger detrimental …

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …

We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and … state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects ….S. States with low minimum wages (i.e., where the federal minimum wage is binding). The results are robust to instrumenting …

analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment … unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross … opportunity cost of employment. …

incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective …, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer …

We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are … implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …