German wages have not increased very rapidly in the last decade despite strong employment growth and a 5 percentage … point decline in the unemployment rate. Our analysis shows that a large part of the decline in unemployment was structural …

Heterogeneity in the ethnic composition of Germany's immigrant population renders general conclusions on the degree of … unobserved heterogeneity and panel attrition in determining the speed of assimilation is analysed. We find evidence for …

and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …

normative differences between these groups suggest that various factors intensifying the negative impact of unemployment on … the German Socio-economic Panel Study (1990–2012; N = 36,296 persons aged 20 to 64; N = 240,071 person-years), we used … fixed-effects models to trace within-person change in subjective well-being across the transition from employment to …

the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the … through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by … less 0.1 percent. While native workers benefit from increased wages and lower unemployment, foreign workers are adversely …

estimate a panel data model where immigrants can choose whether to stay or leave a country. The model is estimated using the … German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Outmigrants are found to have significantly lower labor market earnings and work … propensities than permanent migrants …