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 …

wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments' wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby … cycle. While wages of the median establishment are moderately procyclical, 36 percent of establishments have countercyclical …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in longterm unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …

immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between …

unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical … efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results indicate that firms in eastern Germany are significantly less efficient … than firms in western Germany. The paper also examines some of the possible correlates of regional variations in firm …

In this paper, we provide new explanations for the puzzling findings in the literature that migrants do not decrease … natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two …

unconventional employment consequences of such shocks at a general equilibrium of a multi-sector competitive economy. A labour market … unemployment of unskilled labour due to one of the import-competing sectors shutting down as it fails to cope up with the import … competition. Subsequent reforms however raises aggregate employment. Thus, we may have a J-curve like employment response to …