This paper analyzes the impact of immigration on Germany's labor market in the context of the recent 2004 and 2007 EU … immigration depressed annual wages and annual weeks worked for native German citizens. The results indicate that a 10 percent rise … of the share of immigrants in the workforce would in general reduce wages of native German citizens by about 3 percent …

The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that …

for the dramatic decline in employment and the unprecedented increase in unemployment in the east German economy. …

-abundant countries into the world economy. With flexible wages, a negative supply shock leads to a decrease in the wage rate while … employment remains constant. With a rigid wage rate, a rise in unemployment of unskilled labour follows. The model explains the … factor price frontier for the United States and Germany. …

This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if … Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions do not affect wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, then reservation wages do … not bind on average. Then, UI extensions affect mean wages only through unemployment durations and are valid instrumental …

reservation wages, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The longitudinal aspect of the dataset provides an interesting … perspective on the dynamics of reservation wages and their correlations with accepted wage offers for workers who make the … transition from unemployment to employment. The findings have important policy implications as well, since they shed some light …