, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration of immigrants (as well as integration of second …immigration for natives' labour market outcomes, as well as issues linked to immigrants' integration in the host … country labour market. Changes in the share of immigrants in the labour force may have a distributive impact on natives' wages …

major challenges for policy makers in Finland. The recession of the early 1990s showed that high unemployment can leave long …, greater flexibility in wage setting, ensuring earlier activation of unemployed and reforming unemployment and social benefits … to better support work incentives. Finland has an unusual combination of elevated unemployment replacement rates and late …

: an internal migration function is estimated using district wage and unemployment rate differentials. The aggregate level … wages and unemployment, included in the migration equation, are retrieved from a first stage wage and unemployment equations …. The results reveal that both wage and unemployment differentials are important determinants of the propensity to migrate …

This paper uses the immigration sample of the German Socioeconomic Panel to analyse the earnings and unemployment … earnings differential between immigrants from Eastern Europe and comparable East Germans at the time of immigration. With … Poland and the former USSR have higher unemployment risks than those from East Germany or Romania. Ethnic networks are shown …

high-skill workers.In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …

Using data from the CPS this paper examines the role of birth-country networks on immigrants' unemployment duration … from 2001 to 2013. We find that networks significantly lower unemployment duration for all immigrants. Varying the effect … of networks over duration categories we find that networks are more effective in lowering duration for immigrants …

German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data for the years 2000 to 2016, we analyse unemployment durations and unemployment …-term unemployment. Furthermore, the duration of unemployment prior to finding a new job rises with age. This pattern is particularly … between unemployment and an individual’s subsequent wage. This depressing impact is significant only for unqualified workers …

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We …