The paper investigates the relative importance of job mobility for wages in comparison with the human capital framework …

reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces major … problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that the group of workers with the highest risks of becoming unemployed … in overtime will lead to less production and, hence, also to a decline in the level of unskilled employment. The paper …

Using a large new dataset, we analyze the labor market performance of Portuguese workers in Germany. While previous … work compares wages and characteristics of migrants only to those of the natives, we match the data also with an equivalent …

recently conducted. Also in Germany, a large field experiment has examined the practicability and potentials of this approach …

immigrants in Germany show that ethnic identity is important for the decision to work and significantly and differentially …

. Accounting for sample selectivity, the paper provides regressions explaining reservation wages, and actual earnings for paid-employment … earnings differentials from working and reservation wages and for self-employment and paid-employment earnings matter much … paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment …

the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …

The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority …