employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … the effect is positive in the most recent periods. For native transition from employment to unemployment a complementary … result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects …

Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences … compared to other non-western immigrants but they still suffer from high unemployment. The study also documents that the …

flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications for transition rates between employment, unemployment, and …' transition rates from unemployment to employment increase. Longer periods of non-employment generally decrease future transition … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …

Using the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel, this note reports direct empirical evidence for significant … correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts …, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). …

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 numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 … the German labor market since EU enlargement. Unlike other EU countries, Germany has not immediately opened up its labor … immigrants from outside of Europe for low-skilled jobs instead of competing with German natives. While Germany needs high …

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 …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a … stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …