: an internal migration function is estimated using district wage and unemployment rate differentials. The aggregate level … wages and unemployment, included in the migration equation, are retrieved from a first stage wage and unemployment equations …. The results reveal that both wage and unemployment differentials are important determinants of the propensity to migrate …

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 …

estimate the effects of the program. The results suggest that the program increased transitions from unemployment to work …

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 …

Studying the unemployment risk during 1992 to 1995 for a sample of employees in 1991, we find that immigrants from the … natives fails to explain the differences between immigrants and natives in unemployment risks. Our simulations indicate that … non-European countries run a risk of unemployment that is twice the corresponding risk for the native workers. There exist …

individual employment status. In 1994 17 per cent of the labour force was unemployed and the unemployment rate exhibited a very …-employability. Hence, migration alone may not be a very effective mechanism for alleviating individual 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 …