bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …

individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private …

, employment fell and unemployment rose for newly legalized men relative to the comparison group of already legal U.S. residents …. For women, employment also fell and transitions out of the workforce increased among the newly legalized population …. Increasing returns to skill, as captured by English proficiency, only played an important role in explaining the employment of …

employment experience in the receiving country. However, such a simple model is not necessarily cross-culturally applicable and … achieved human capital do not significantly influence immigrant wages in Hamamatsu. Instead, ascribed human capital (e ….g., gender, ethnicity) has a much greater impact on immigrant wages in Japan than in the United States. Although the use of …

mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …Empirical investigation of the labor market consequences of employment protection has mushroomed since Lazear's (1990 …

. In our empirical application we demonstrate that moderately large birth cohorts seem to experience lower employment rates …