wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition …. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job competition, alternative to the unemployment rate, and finds that the … negative relationship still holds when job competition is measured following the job search literature. While for men the wage …

2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter …

manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage …

a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major … competition over 1999 through 2011 in the range of 2.0 to 2.4 million …

search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical …

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between …

start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …

novel data set of unemployed individuals in Germany containing extensive information on job search behavior and direct …

This paper provides an evaluation of the status of migrant workers in Germany amidst the global financial crisis … workers in Germany, where primarily the skilled-workforce concentrated industries of high-value products is affected, has …