that had been characterized for many years by high unemployment and declining employment. Beginning in 2005, however, the … young and smaller cohorts has affected the declining unemployment rate in East Germany. This paper tackles the question of … the ties between demography and unemployment in East Germany and to this end draws on the concepts of the cohort crowding …

cause these potential differences. In a first step, we evaluate program effects separately for immigrants and natives using …

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to analyse immigrants' participation versus non-participation in the regional labour … markets and/or in education. For comparison we have followed groups of immigrants by their reason for immigration, like … refugees, labor-, family- and education-immigrants and Nordic immigrants with special focus on those who do not move …

Labour market is characterized in Spain by a high persistence in unemployment rates. One of the main reasons of this … mainly respond, though weakly, to the differentials of wages, unemployment rates and house prices between regions; third …, migratory flows are also affected, to a great extent, by non economic factors. Keywords: migratory flows, regions, unemployment …

variables as well as for labour market factors such as unemployment rates, income and house prices. We compare several model … specifications. Results on employment/unemployment are fairly consistent across models. Results on other variables, for instance …

Recently migration patterns in the euro area changed markedly in response to increasing unemployment disparities. This … business-cycle related fluctuations in net migration flows and the crucial role of unemployment and vacancies in shaping …-cycle migration. In this model unemployment arises from search and matching frictions. We endogenize migration via the unemployed …

-setting framework relies on the assumption that wages tend to decline with rising unemployment, albeit imperfectly. This enables us to … wages by about 0.3 percent and reduces their unemployment rate by 0.1 percent, while the wages of the foreign workforce … decline by 2.4 percent and their unemployment increases by 0.9 percentage points. …

knowledge. The empirical results suggest that the immigrants' impact increases if they come from technological advanced …