they consider lower wages and higher wage dispersion major prerequisites for stronger employment growth. The theoretical …The article examines the macroeconomic effects of the recent labour market reforms in Germany. The reforms increased … the downward pressure on wages and led to rising income inequality. Many German economists welcomed this effect, because …

A wage curve is a decreasing function of wages on the regional unemployment rate. Most empirical studies on the wage … taken into account. The paper tests whether the unemployment rate in the larger surrounding region also affects wages. In … heterogeneity and in the second step one allows for spatial effects of unemployment across regions on wages. We check the …

host and home country have higher employment rates, while those who exclusively identify with the host country culture do …

host and home country have higher employment rates, while those who exclusively identify with the host country culture do …

the vital question of how migrants take advantage of social relations between indigenous people and their own ethnic group … in Germany and the Netherlands, producing an important data comparison for those two bordering countries. … -- Conclusion -- 3 Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands -- Introduction -- Migration history and background of the ethnic …