market and, on rigid labor markets, for unemployment. Exploiting variation in exit-exam systems across German states, we find … market, as well as with lower unemployment. …

. Concomitantly, employment falls between 1½ and 5% depending on hurricane strength. On the other hand, the effects of hurricanes on … better examine the specific shocks, we also observe sectoral employment shifts. Finally, we conduct a time-series analysis … and find that over time, there is somewhat of a cobweb with earnings and employment rising and falling each quarter over a …

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 …

differences, however, vary greatly across countries with migrants in Germany and Portugal faring best relative to natives, and …The paper uses the 1994-2000 waves of the European Community Household Panel to conduct a systematic analysis of the … those in Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg or Spain the worst, particularly among non-EU born migrants. Gender differences are …

This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the favorable self-selection (supply) of migrants for labor market success. The … be expected to be less intense for non-economic migrants, such as refugees, tied movers and ideological migrants, and for …

This study investigates the impact of ethnic identity on Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Georgian, and Russian wages in … with immigrant wages, while separation and marginalisation are negatively associated with immigrant wages, after …

and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher …Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages … percentage of migrants, but only when those migrants are non-EEA migrants. However, the effects are no longer apparent when we …