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 …

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

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

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 …

participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell …

This paper explores the effects of a major reform of unemployment benefits in Germany on the labor market outcomes of …

study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and …