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 …

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … as random shocks to individual utility functions, interacts with individual searchand labor supply decisions and triggers … movements across labor force states. The employed worker prefers absence for sufficiently severe sickness and the unemployed …

using information from two cohorts of new entrants to the labor force. We adopt an accelerated failure time model allowing … apprenticeship training have longer job durations. In contrast, the larger the number of unemployment and employment spells, the …