The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that …

firm dynamics, including survival and growth. We tie our empirical findings to a simple model of pay, employment, and …

; Germany ; Establishment History Panel ; Qualification ; Wages ; Part-Time ; Marginal Employment … entrepreneurship research analyses the employment effects of start-ups vs. incumbent firms, our knowledge about differences in these …-qualified labour isthough highly significantnot as high as commonly expected. -- Start-ups ; Employment ; Quality of Employment …

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that … affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and then we investigate whether self-employment has a differential … effect on the wages of individual workers and can lead them to economic success. We employ recent data from the German …

connections on hiring probabilities and re-employment outcomes of displaced workers in Portugal. We rely on rich matched employer …-level wages and enjoy greater job security although these advantages disappear over time. …

, but they are relatively small. The personal characteristics of workers seem to exert a substantial effect on employment …

status and earnings level. -- International trade ; employment status ; individual wages …, but they are relatively small. The personal characteristics of workers seem to exert a substantial effect on employment …

We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany … downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses and their cyclicality is driven by declines in wages. Key to these long …-paying firms. Changes in characteristics of workers or displacing firms explain little of the cyclicality, though non-employment …

lost firm wage premiums or worker productivity depreciations. We therefore estimate losses in wages and firm wage premiums … and that premium losses are largely permanent. We show that losses in wages and premiums are minor for workers displaced …

, an increase in government wages or benefits reduces private sector employment, and government employment is not an …Government wage, benefit, and employment decisions are not taken on a profit-maximizing basis and have a substantial …