the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic … consequences of immigration for a host country=s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated …

suggest that immigration exhibits negative effects on native employment and wages, and has no effects on total employment …. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration …Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and …

and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal … experience losses three times as high. French and Austrian workers face earnings losses somewhere in-between. Key to these … differences is that Southern European workers are less likely to find employment following displacement. Loss of employer …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor … market outcomes are more cyclical than those of natives. The greater cyclicality of immigrants' employment and unemployment …-sensitive employment outcomes than college-educated natives …

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …

in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of … Germany. Our results indicate that separated migrants have a relatively slow reintegration into the labor market. We explain … moderate, yet still above the level which would imply similar employment probabilities as other groups of migrants …

unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the … duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time hazard rate models …