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 …

Most immigrant groups experience higher rates of unemployment than the host countries native population, but it is as … investigate how the job search methods of unemployed immigrants compare with those of the native born, using panel data from the … native born and immigrant groups, in terms of their impact on the duration of unemployment. Our main finding is that …

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 …

spell at the time of interview and on all previous spells back to one year before is used to construct unemployment duration … data. Unemployment spells are defined as a series of monthly episodes ending up in a transition to job or out of labour … force, or right-censored. For any unemployment spell recorded at the time of interview, the individual is asked to report on …

unemployment rate and the actual unemployment rate in the country, which is a meaningful indicator of their misperception of labor … model includes: controls for the worker's ability; country-specific fixed effects; the unemployment rate in the region of … residence, which might be the benchmark respondents have in mind when reporting their perception of the national unemployment …

Most immigrant groups experience higher rates of unemployment than the host countries native population, but it is as … investigate how the job search methods of unemployed immigrants compare with those of the native born, using panel data from the … native born and immigrant groups, in terms of their impact on the duration of unemployment. Our main finding is that …

ethnic minority immigrants, and their success in exiting unemployment, compare with the UK born, using the panel element of …Most immigrant groups in the UK experience higher unemployment rates than otherwise similar UK born whites. Empirical … research to date has attributed this finding to discrimination, lack of English Language fluency and the (non-) transferability …