This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique … panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA). This paper estimates models of the probability of … significant “unexplained differences” for males that may be ascribed to “discrimination” against Asian migrants. However, the …

unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less … depends crucially on the importance of mobility costs; (2) while higher homeownership may harm macroeconomic labour market …

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 …

We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross …

We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross … in their upward income mobility compared to women in the upper income classes. We also find significant, but smaller …

Homeownership is believed to cause higher unemployment. This is because homeowners face higher mobility costs that … households. This facilitates a new test of the effects of homeownership on mobility and unemployment. We find only weak evidence … that homeowners are less willing to move and no evidence of higher unemployment risks relative to renters. …

of labour market discrimination. The same reduction in negative attitudes would increase the welfare of immigrants from …We exploit the regional variation in negative attitudes towards immigrants to Sweden in order to analyse what are the … consequences of such attitudes on immigrants' welfare. A well educated immigrant from a non developed country who lives in a …

Homeownership is believed to cause higher unemployment. This is because homeowners face higher mobility costs that … households. This facilitates a new test of the effects of homeownership on mobility and unemployment. We find only weak evidence … that homeowners are less willing to move and no evidence of higher unemployment risks relative to renters. …

unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less … depends crucially on the importance of mobility costs; (2) while higher homeownership may harm macroeconomic labour market …

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of … life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper … shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any amenity on wages and unemployment rates are of opposite sign …