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 …

immigrant networks and negative effects of unemployment rates. In addition, we find that employment protection, union coverage … institutional determinants, especially labor-market institutions, on migrants' choices. Based on a large data set constructed from … micro-data for France, Germany, the UK and the US, we study their decisions to migrate to one of the four countries using a …

context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences … often adopted in regions with higher digital capital. But digital capital smoothed the employment shock beyond the effect of …

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 …

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and … unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human … capital of non-migrants. …

market quantities for Great Britain. We use data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) for 1991-2008 and from the … moments of the distributions of earnings, employment and wage shocks across individuals. Our main finding is that …

by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the … of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all … to the US. -- Migration ; immigration policy ; education ; employment ; wages ; brain drain …

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage age and education, with the income of the teenager's family, with migration status, residence in East Germany, and … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …