bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective …

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in … unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three … times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build a model in which both unemployment and mobility rates are endogenous. Our …

Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We … study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and … regression yields positive correlations between naturalization and beneficial labor market outcomes. Once we account for the …

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in long-term unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates …

This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general … equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of … institutions (short-time work, government spending rules) and shocks (aggregate, labor market, and policy shocks) and to perform …

The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to … structure – but also in a series of labor market reforms initiated between 2002 and 2005 altering, inter alia, labor supply … challenges the German labor market will soon have to face. Female labor supply still lies well below that of other countries and …

inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the …How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this … and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries …

The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-war history appears as an economic … factors that have contributed to this development include the strong position of the German economy due to recent labor market …