Albert, Max; Meckl, Jürgen - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2002
We analyze the employment effects of immigration within a model that accounts for several stylized facts of the German … labor market. The co-existence of positive wage spans and unemployment is explained by wage rigidities that are … wages results from employment shifts from low-wage to high-wage sectors. Employment effects of immigration are opposite to …