Employment Biographies of the IAB and can be linked to the survey data using the provided unique key variable. …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a … stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the … through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by … less 0.1 percent. While native workers benefit from increased wages and lower unemployment, foreign workers are adversely …

respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on …

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … related to negative relative demand shocks against the unskilled in the industrialised world, combined with flexible wages in …

accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …

This paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the … native employment and the relative price of domestic goods – is estimated, finding negative effects of immigration on native … employment a year after arrival. The delay in the effect is attributed to a positive impact of immigration on the excess demand …