This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

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 … suffers more from further immigration in Germany than in the UK. …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ … impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …

This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge … robust, positive effect of immigration on natives' well-being. The presence of confounding local labour market … characteristics has a negligible impact on the estimates. Furthermore, we find substantial evidence that the effect of immigration on …

markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration … policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant … cycle component. We find significantly larger unemployment responses to economic shocks for low-skilled workers relative to …

only the end of unemployment for the new entrepreneur but also some further positive effects, e.g., direct job creation …,100 start-ups founded by unemployed persons in Germany. Individuals were subsidized under two different schemes, and we are able …

A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 …