This paper tests whether amnesty, a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), affected the labor … market outcomes of the legalized population. Using the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) and the National Longitudinal Survey … amnesty on the legalized population relative to a comparison group. After the implementation of the amnesty program …

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 …

unemployment in five former communist economies and inthe western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the … evolution ofunemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies...<br< …

labor force reallocation. We show that worker flows between jobs in different industries are rare relative to the …. In fact, evidence suggest that changes in the demand for labor were accommodated mostly through demographic flows, with a …

Firms select not only how many, but also which workers to hire. Yet, in standard searchmodels of the labor market, all … positivepredictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are muchlarger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result,optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …

The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-warhistory appears as an economic …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … variation there and weexplore potential explanations for this outcome through related capital and labor mobilitypatterns... …