- on average - higher for immigrants. We also propose an alternative measure of unemployment which includes the discourage …: immigrants from non-Western countries and Norwegian-born. The empirical results show that estimated search cost (disutility) per … unit of time is much higher for the Norwegian-born than for immigrants whereas total (expected) estimated search cost is …

. By comparing past predictions to observed values, we find that the Phillips curve with the average unemployment rate in … districts with prevalently low unemployment rates delivers more accurate predictions of aggregated wage inflation than the … Phillips curve with the overall unemployment rate. The identification of specific groups of districts is based on our estimates …

large unemployment effects, since immigrants are concentrated in labor market segments with low wage flexibility. The … bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. We find that the wage and employment effects of immigration depend on …

male and female workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes different types of career absence: unemployment …. Unemployment decreases wages in the short term only, and for women more strongly than for men. Maternity leave leads to substantial …

in mobility, whereas only in three countries the increase in mobility is determined by the decrease in inequality. …

-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … compute earnings mobility. The predicted components together with the institutional OECD data are used in a non-linear least … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …

question is answered by exploring short and long-term wage mobility for males across 14 EU countries between 1994 and 2001 … using ECHP. Mobility is evaluated using rank measures which capture positional movements in the distribution of earnings …. All countries recording an increase in cross-sectional inequality recorded also a decrease in short-term mobility. Among …

Unemployment and low wages prevailing in the domestic market pushes female workers to look for better employment abroad …