Using data from the CPS this paper examines the role of birth-country networks on immigrants' unemployment duration … from 2001 to 2013. We find that networks significantly lower unemployment duration for all immigrants. Varying the effect … of networks over duration categories we find that networks are more effective in lowering duration for immigrants …

job finding networks. Using matched employer-employee data from Hungary, this paper relates the unemployment duration of …

The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in … responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from various origins, skills and tenure in the country vis-à-vis the natives, and how … it varied over the business cycle during the Great Recession. We show that immigrants in general have responded to …

The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in … responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from various origins, skills and tenure in the country vis-à-vis the natives, and how … it varied over the business cycle during the Great Recession. We show that immigrants in general have responded to …

Using a proportional hazard model with multiple exits, this paper analyzes whether immigrants' unemployment spells … substantial proportion of the observed difference in unemployment spells between natives and immigrants can be explained by … data set taken from the Swedish unemployment registers is used. The data set covers the period 1991 to 1996, a period of …

We analyze differences in unemployment between natives and immigrants over the business cycle. Using matched employer …-employee data for Austria, we find that immigrants' unemployment rate and flows into and out of unemployment are significantly more … sensitive to labor market shocks than those of comparable natives. This is particularly true for immigrants from outside the …

This paper investigates how immigrants' job search outcomes are affected by the labor market outcomes of workers from … increase in the employment prospects of socially connected workers improves immigrants’ job search outcomes. The analysis of …

This paper investigates how the job search outcomes of displaced migrants are affected by the labor market outcomes of …

This paper investigates how immigrants' job search outcomes are affected by the labor market outcomes of workers from … increase in the employment prospects of socially connected workers improves immigrants' job search outcomes. The analysis of …