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 …

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime … income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …

connections on hiring probabilities and re-employment outcomes of displaced workers in Portugal. We rely on rich matched employer …-level wages and enjoy greater job security although these advantages disappear over time. …

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 …

effect on wages conditional on employment. The employment effect appears to be due to the effect of differences in the … outcomes using register data from Germany. I instrument for the conational share using hiring trends in the local labour market … and find that a ten-percentage-point increase in the initial conational share lowers employment rates by 3.1 percentage …

performance and welfare. Lower immigration leads to higher wages for low-skilled workers and higher consumer prices. Importantly …

the role of lower unemployment risk in self-employment. We decompose earnings risk dynamics by estimating a life …This paper documents the role of unemployment and earnings risk in reconciling evidence in payoff differentials between … self-employment and paid-employment. Using Spanish administrative data, we characterize the distribution and dynamics of …

. In particular, I show that once markups are allowed to respond to trade liberalization, unemployment and residual wage …