This paper is concerned with the study of the labor market performance of immigrants. The unemployment rate is used as …, probit regressions on the unemployment probabilities are estimated for the pooled crosssection of 1991 and 1995, taking into … account nationality- and gender-specific differences. In a second step, and based on the finding that unemployment rates …

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment … real wages and unemployment levels in the unskilled labor intensive sector. However, the inequality of workers between …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

This paper indicates that East Germany's unemployment originates primarily in the labor market, caused by the fast wage …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

Based on a Cox Proportional Hazard analysis of German unemployment spells, structural change of the production process … is identified as a major explanation for long-term unemployment. Other important covariates capture labor market … economy, or spend a longer time in unemployment searching for the few remaining jobs for which they possess adequate skills. …

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reserva …­tion wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemploy­ment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed …

short spells of unemployment calculated and reported reservation wages correspond very well, whereas reported reservation …

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht den Einfluss erfragter Reservationslöhne zu Anfang der Arbeitslosigkeit auf die …This paper deals with the influence of reported reservation wages at the begin-ning of an unemployment spell on the … unemployment duration be found, whereby it then occurs at a considerable level. …

The analysis is about the compulsory German unemployment insurance system (GUIS). It is known that GUIS did nothing to … prevent the continuous rise of the rate of unemployment since the 1970s. The empirical literature about GUIS indicates that … literature on reforming the system of unemployment insurance has arisen, most of it aiming at marginal reforms only. It turns out …