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 …

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 …

Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …

in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and-through input-output linkages and other general …

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the … adjustment costs that are highly unevenly distributed across workers according to their skill levels and conditions of employment …

We derive a sufficient statistics optimal income tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and … endogenous wages, to study the shape of the tax and transfer system at the bottom of the income distribution. The sufficient … statistics are the macro employment response to taxation and the micro and macro participation responses. We estimate these …

U3, the official unemployment rate, is an inadequate gauge of labor-market slack and the extent to which it misinforms … varies substantially over the business cycle. The U6 unemployment rate is usually about 4 percentage points above U3. However …

The official U.S. unemployment rate is an inadequate measure of actual labor market conditions. This poses a major … challenge for researchers and confuses both the public and policy makers. A new definition of unemployment is proposed. It … unemployed. We find that the actual unemployment rate in May 2020 was 24.4% or 183% of the headline rate of 13.3%. …