-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … in startups than in incumbents. Therefore, even if startups provide employment opportunities for certain groups of …This paper analyzes whether startups offer job opportunities to workers potentially facing labor market problems. It …

, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …

This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions have on employment. First, it considers the importance of … activity in a similar manner, employment authorities may be able to anticipate the regions in which takeovers are more likely …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … outcomes in Germany. We finda transitory negative wage effect among German nationals, particularly at the bottom ofthe wage … distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …

Despite the long economic expansion, employment among young men is lower today than it was in the late 1960s. This … single week per year. One common explanation for this trend, declining real wages, ignores the fact that the value of working … and 1977. Changes in wages do not explain any of this trend …

. Moreover, they have also experienced a deterioration in their employment and earnings over the last three decades. In this … paper, we document this evolution and adopt a longitudinal approach to show that employment and earnings losses suffered by …

informal and formal workers, both at the means and along the wage distribution. I use two definitions of informal employment: a …) employment without a written agreement and b) employment while officially registered as unemployed at a labour office. In order … to reduce the bias resulting from the non-random selection of individuals into informal employment, I use a rich set of …

informal and formal workers, both at the means and along the wage distribution. I use two definitions of informal employment: a …) employment without a written agreement and b) employment while officially registered as unemployed at a labour office. In order … to reduce the bias resulting from the non-random selection of individuals into informal employment, I use a rich set of …