Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows for larger consumption at home settle for lower entry wages, but …We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories …, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter …

Shortage of nurses is a problem in several countries. It is an unsettled question whether increasing wages constitute a …,638 individuals over 6 years totalling 69,122 observations. The estimated wage elasticity after controlling for individual …

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. …

using repeated cross-sectional data confirms this trend for Norway – the gross wage elasticity for married women decreased …

retirement age. Wage increases have a modest impact on labor supply. The overall elasticity for nurses is close to zero (like for …

support can be mustered without hurting equity too much. We also investigate the effects of Germany meeting its legal target …