We argue that the arrival of immigrants with low reservation wages can strengthen the monopsony power of firms. Firms …

labour mobility as pillar for the functioning of currency areas. Applying the CGE model PuMA, we quantitatively analyse to … what extent labour mobility can contribute to reducing imbalances within the Euro area. Our results indicate that it can … temporarily reduce unemployment and increase wages in periphery countries at the cost of somewhat higher unemployment in receiving …

existing low-skilled immigrants to the labor market counteract the effect that is triggered by an increase in low …

differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to … matching, bargaining and employers' taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women …

females and males are identical in all respects. Specifically, we argue that a pay gap can emerge naturally as discrimination … change in elasticity emerges it in fact makes discrimination optimal and allows discrimination to materialize in equilibrium …. Moreover, we show that discrimination against females is detrimental to the overall welfare and in addition it negatively …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …