Germany can be regarded as a showcase for labor market reforms. Moreover, its labor market responded only mildly to the … Great Recession. This paper assesses the role of the labor market reforms for the latter development. Against this …

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally … relatives in home countries and to a correction for selection into return migration. We derive important implications for labor …

skills during the experience of unemployment. Within a search and matching model, we show that all natives and immigrants are …

associated with high consumption value and low effort. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in the …

actual unemployment. …

Evaluation Dataset, a recently collected survey of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany. The data include … unemployment entry. Research limitations/implications – The findings offer interesting perspectives, e.g. with regard to the design … and targeting of active labor market policy. It may be reasonable to specifically focus on less risk averse individuals …

investigate labor market reintegration, patterns of job search, and reservation wages across unemployed migrants and natives in … representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. The data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us … slow reintegration into the labor market. It can be argued that this group exerts a relatively low search effort and that …

consequences of immigration for a host country=s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated … the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy … capital but also for native labor. …

active labor market policy, are only partly reported as unemployment. A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of labor … effects of wage policy have been overrated. Differences in unemployment rates are also the result of more ample labor supply …This study surveys the development of the East German labor market after the unification of Germany. We explain that in …

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment … the labor market reintegration, patterns of job search, and reservation wages across unemployed migrants and natives in … Germany. Our results indicate that separated migrants have a relatively slow reintegration into the labor market. We explain …