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 …

resulting in higher risks of unemployment up to 5 years later. The results imply that poor labor market performance as a …The paper studies the relationship between teenagers' first labor market experience and subsequent labor market … order to identify the causal long-run effects of post-graduation unemployment. The results show significant scarring effects …

of in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment, compared to a framework in which …

economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong …

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 …

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 …

employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less …

unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high unemployment-employment ratios as evidence of labor market frictions … labor market frictions can explain almost the entire variation in not only unemployment, but also wage employment and self … have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the …

temporary employment to unemployment, were the main factor behind the rise in unemployment; while reduced unemployment outflows … did not contribute substantially to the increase in unemployment during the early phase of the crisis …

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 …