panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants from the guestworker countries are indeed repeat or circular migrants …. Migrants from European Union member countries, those not owning a dwelling in Germany, the younger and the older (excluding the …

into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …

and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques for estimation. We develop a … the posterior distributions of different treatment effects of interest. Our estimation results imply positive effects of … start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment … rate in Germany and Denmark, while the wage effects are larger in the UK. Moreover, the elasticity of substitution between …

Starting in January 2003, Germany implemented the first two so-called Hartz reforms, followed by the third and fourth …

the case of Germany, which has displayed a significantly lower increase in its labour force than its trade partners …

- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …