This paper investigates determinants and wage effects of educational mismatch for both natives and immigrants in … Germany. Using the GSOEP panel data from 1991 to 2013, I find that conditional on educational attainment immigrants face a … higher incidence of overeducation compared to their native counterparts. Among immigrants German language skills as well as …

not in line with taste-based discrimination, but they can be rationalized by high-wage firms that ask for more employer …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

of the unemployment pool. We show that workers with high wages have both lower separation rates and larger log … unemployment pool in recessions, leading to a positive correlation between unemployment and the prior wage of those losing their …

(un)employment. These disadvantages hold for all groups of workers and types of start-ups analyzed. Although our analysis …

quantitative effects of (i) aggregate productivity shocks on unemployment and (ii) unemployment benefits on unemployment. This … model, unemployment benefits affect households' behavior directly, without having to run via the bargained wage. A … effect of benefits on unemployment. Our analysis shows the importance of investigating the effects of policies on the …