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 …

Most immigrant groups experience higher rates of unemployment than the host countries native population, but it is as … native born and immigrant groups, in terms of their impact on the duration of unemployment. Our main finding is that … unemployment cannot generally be explained by differences in the choice of main job search method or in observable characteristics …

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour … unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

increase the probability of re-employment following unemployment. …

also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a …

have higher wage dispersion. We also examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and job search. …

50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity … of 2.5; 5) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion …; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI …

special system of unemployment assistance. The majority of the non-employed, including those aged 15-59, receive disability …