of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us …

on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate … suggest that the educational gap between natives and migrants is mainly due to the 'endowment effect' provided by the … socioeconomic background of parents and cultural capital at home. Some adverse 'integration effects' do exist for female migrants in …

migrants with a Turkish origin or Central and Eastern European (including Russian) background. Job search theory is used to …

with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. …

by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving countries as Canada, Germany, Israel and the United States. It is …

, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those … migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …

processes in West Germany. The empirical analysis is based on regional data for local employment office districts for the period …

, Japan and Germany between 2.5 and 5 per cent of the workforce participated in short-time work schemes at the trough of the … Germany is more encouraging as to the effectiveness of STW, pointing to rather moderate deadweight losses. We interpret this …