study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and … market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …

In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment … unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross … opportunity cost of employment. …

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

The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age … and we show that higher minimum wage can raise aggregate employment. Expansion in the non-traded sector following a wage …

behind the recent incredible rise in old age employment in Germany. …We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers' labor market transitions … unemployed declined after the reform. These patterns suggest that the reform of unemployment benefits may be one of the reasons …

smaller employment, but generate higher welfare than flexible wages. -- unemployment ; debt ; interest rate premium ; haircut … a highly indebted open economy. In contrast to the standard open economy framework, search unemployment and wage … intertemporal welfare gain, even though unemployment increases strongly in the short run. A 50% haircut of foreign debt …

Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners' unemployment with an increase in labor market … participation, which also leads to an increase in their employment probability. Our analysis considers within- and between …-effects separately, revealing differences in the relationships between women's labor market statuses and their partners' unemployment in …

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 …