signal of productivity, and duration of unemployment may be positively related to post-laid-off wages even among workers who … employer and may choose to remain unemployed rather than to accept a low-wage job. In this case, unemployment can serve as a … are not recalled. In contrast, because workers whose plant closed cannot be recalled, longer unemployment for them should …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … unemployment wages. A high wage replacement rate in the low wage sector seems to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment … and it is associated with higher post unemployment wages. …

apprenticeship training have longer job durations. In contrast, the larger the number of unemployment and employment spells, the …Based on theoretical models of job mobility this paper provides an empirical analysis of job durations in West Germany …

business for a longer period of time tend to pay higher wages. Using a unique rich set of linked employer-employee data we … present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher … wages for workers with the same broadly defined degree of formal qualification. This firm age differential vanishes after …

This report analyzes the employment and unemployment experiences of adult foreign-born men, both among themselves and … dependent variables are analyzed, weeks worked (employment) in 1989, unemployment status in the reference week in 1990, and a … employment and unemployment of schooling, labor market experience, marital status and the agricultural sector, in addition to …

Using a proportional hazard model with multiple exits, this paper analyzes whether immigrants' unemployment spells … data set taken from the Swedish unemployment registers is used. The data set covers the period 1991 to 1996, a period of … substantial increases in both unemployment rates as well as in immigration. The estimates from the hazard model suggests that a …

Most immigrant groups experience higher rates of unemployment than the host countries native population, but it is as … investigate how the job search methods of unemployed immigrants compare with those of the native born, using panel data from the … native born and immigrant groups, in terms of their impact on the duration of unemployment. Our main finding is that …

This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment … jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that … the post-unemployment jobs remained unaffected: the paper finds that the law change had no effect on either the type of …