problems in its labor market, reflected in its high long–term and youth unemployment. Our analysis of the drivers of labor …

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 …