Specialized Employment Survey 1998-2001, we estimate a quasi-experimental difference-in-difference model. We find that this …

immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … power. A rise in the share of immigrant workers leads to the creation of additional jobs, but also more job competition. The …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …

The article examines the macroeconomic effects of the recent labour market reforms in Germany. The reforms increased … they consider lower wages and higher wage dispersion major prerequisites for stronger employment growth. The theoretical … two upswings confirms that the labour intensity of growth has not risen since the reforms. At the same time German wage …

-displacement wage. Using rich and accurate data on workers’ employment patterns before and after displacement, we compare the earnings … and employment outcomes of displaced workers who entered transfer companies with those that did not. Workers can choose … and IV estimates indicate that the use of a transfer company has a positive and significant effect on employment rates …

sorted across firms and worker-firm matches upon re-employment. We find that the Hartz reforms substantially reduced the … 80 percent of the increased wage loss was because displaced workers found re-employment in lower-wage firms after the … reforms. A disproportionate share of these low-wage firms offer temporary employment services to other firms, and we document …