In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

Mexican immigrants were historically clustered in a few cities, mainly in California and Texas. During the past 15 … and consequences of the widening geographic diffusion of Mexican immigrants. A combination of demand-pull and supply push … factors explains most of the inter-city variation in inflows of Mexican immigrants over the 1990s, and also illuminates the …

human capital. To control for unobserved skill-group specific demand factors, our models include lagged mobility flows of … natives over the 1970-80 period. We also estimate instrumental variables models that use the fraction of Mexican immigrants in …

the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform … from immigration and the rise of other education-related wage gaps. Overall, evidence that immigrants have harmed the … immigrants is a key yardstick. By this metric, post-1965 immigrants are doing reasonably well: second generation sons and …

differences between black and white workers. Do the differences reflect productivity differences, discrimination, or both? If …