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 …

Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive … unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment services. This paper uses … contribute to the shortening of unemployment duration. For this purpose, we estimate a semi-parametric duration model with three …

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 …