The EU’s largest economy, Germany, has managed to find an effective and unique combination of flexibility and rigidity … instruments. Important developments since 2000 include steadily decreasing unemployment rates (since 2005), increasing …

The EU’s largest economy, Germany, has managed to find an effective and unique combination of flexibility and rigidity … instruments. Important developments since 2000 include steadily decreasing unemployment rates (since 2005), increasing …

immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with …

risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …

risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …

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 …