The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses … two natural quasi-experiments to directly compare foreign to native labor supply in manual farm work. The first quasi …

This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the unemployment risk of young natives. Austria … from former Yugoslavia). We concentrate on unemployment entry of young male workers, who are supposed to compete most …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings …