Canada's traditional use of immigrants as an engine of growth is very limited in the 21st century and suggest recruitment of …

This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational … residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with individual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Our … identification strategy exploits the plausibly exogenous city-by-cohort variation in the Jewish population in Germany as a unique …

opportunities. Referring conflicting theoretical arguments, we hypothesize that in Germany – as a conservative welfare state – women …

. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in non-routine analytic tasks and non …

This paper analyzes the structure of hiring costs of skilled workers in Germany. Using detailed and representative firm …-level data on recruitment and adaptation costs of new hires, we find that average hiring costs amount to more than 8 weeks of …

administrative data set from Germany and statistical matching techniques. Our treatment groups consist of unemployed persons taking …