This paper uses the immigration sample of the German Socioeconomic Panel to analyse the earnings and unemployment … earnings differential between immigrants from Eastern Europe and comparable East Germans at the time of immigration. With … Poland and the former USSR have higher unemployment risks than those from East Germany or Romania. Ethnic networks are shown …

In this paper, we analyse an equilibrium search model with three sources for wage and unemployment differentials among … intensities and discrimination (Becker 1957) due to an appearance-based employer disutility factor. Because these sources affect … and unemployment differentials is possible. We show that the structural parameters of the model, including the firm …

Most immigrant groups experience higher rates of unemployment than the host countries native population, but it is as … investigate how the job search methods of unemployed immigrants compare with those of the native born, using panel data from the … native born and immigrant groups, in terms of their impact on the duration of unemployment. Our main finding is that …

This paper analyses the ‘risk’ of unemployment of male immigrants to Australia relative to the native born using Wave 1 … effects of variables commonly used previously are quite robust, but several additional correlates of individual unemployment …

outcomes. We employ a search and matching framework that allows for skill heterogeneity and differential unemployment income … (search cost) between immigrants and natives. Within such a framework, we .find that skilled native workers, who complement … immigrants in production, gain in terms of both wages and employment. The effects on unskilled native workers, who compete with …

We develop a model of directed technological change, frictional unemployment and migration to examine the effects of a …, an increase in the skill ratio can reduce the relative unemployment rate of skilled workers and decrease the relative …

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …

immigration, low-skilled unemployment and medium-skilled over-qualification, ii) the polarization effect where both low- and high … migration-induced supply shock of medium-skilled workers decreases the low-skilled unemployment rate because of the endogenous …

heterogeneity, endogenous skill acquisition, differential search cost between immigrants and natives, capital-skill complementarity … and different degree of substitutability between unskilled natives and immigrants. Within such a framework, we find that … wages. Nevertheless, in one version of the model, where unskilled workers and immigrants are imperfect substitutes, we find …

. Labour mobility and wage flexibility were at the core of the debate over the causes of and cures for regional labour market … across EU countries and regions; d) the role of labour mobility in reducing/increasing regional labour market imbalances, in …