This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment … probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the … for other origins. Among women, the pattern of assimilation in earnings and employment is more positive than among their …

, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter … Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows for larger consumption at home settle for lower entry wages, but …

individual labor supply function with non-employment as a possible outcome. Performing a thought experiment in which all offered … extensive adjustment of wages, and (iii) the aggregate employment rate. We use individual-specific data from the German Socio …

search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical … effort ; reservation wage ; locus of control ; unemployment duration …

novel data set of unemployed individuals in Germany containing extensive information on job search behavior and direct … relationship between the network size and reservation wages. -- job search behavior ; unemployment ; social networks …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

countries Germany, France and the Netherlands using the EU Labour Force Survey. Second, we characterize the different employment …For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective … on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the situation as observed in Belgium over the time …