the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …

The paper investigates the relative importance of job mobility for wages in comparison with the human capital framework …

failure. -- EU enlargement ; international migration ; wages ; employment … the German labor market since EU enlargement. Unlike other EU countries, Germany has not immediately opened up its labor … immigrants from outside of Europe for low-skilled jobs instead of competing with German natives. While Germany needs high …

is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces … major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that the group of workers with the highest risks of becoming … reduction in overtime will lead to less production and hence also to a decline in the level of unskilled employment. The paper …

Using a large new dataset, we analyze the labor market performance of Portuguese workers in Germany. While previous … work compares wages and characteristics of migrants only to those of the natives, we match the data also with an equivalent …

recently conducted. Also in Germany, a large field experiment has examined the practicability and potentials of this approach …

and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German … Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that self-employment is not significantly affected by exposure to Germany or by human … worries. While individuals are strongly pulled into self-employment if it offers higher earnings, immigrants are additionally …

immigrants in Germany show that ethnic identity is important for the decision to work and significantly and differentially …

. Accounting for sample selectivity, the paper provides regressions explaining reservation wages, and actual earnings for paid-employment … earnings differentials from working and reservation wages and for self-employment and paid-employment earnings matter much … paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment …