few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …

Using a rich German panel data set, I estimate wage assimilation patterns for immigrants in Germany. This study … immigrant's perspective. Comparisons with similar natives reveal that immigrants' experience earnings profiles are flatter on … differences between natives and immigrants remain. They are particularly noticeable for highly skilled immigrants, the group …

West German counties is estimated. -- quality of life ; residential mobility ; unemployment ; job search ; matching …Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to … pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local …

) reaction to rising and falling unemployment. In contrast, wage growth in establishments without collective bargaining adjusts … only to falling unemployment and is unaffected by rising unemployment. -- wage cyclicality ; wage bargaining ; works …

-group favoritism and discrimination among multiple out-groups. Individuals expect others to be in-group biased, as well as to be …

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment … intergenerational unemployment transmission. This outcome is robust to alternative data structures and to tests at the intensive and …

aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …

Using results on brother correlations of different groups of second generation immigrants based on administrative data … mobility. The estimated correlations indicate that cultural background is not an important factor for the level of … intergenerational mobility. -- Intergenerational mobility ; Sibling correlations …