We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants’ labor market success. Our context is the mass migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. Once in Israel, these immigrants faced none of the legal barriers that are typically posed by...

This paper empirically examines the impact of labour market counter-reforms on real GDP per capita and employment growth in 25 OECD countries between 1973 and 2012. We use a novel, narrative-based dataset of reform indicators and apply the local projections approach. We consider not only...

Vor dem Hintergrund der demographischen Entwicklung in Sachsen wurde im Rahmen dieser Studie ein belastbares Szenario für den Dresdner Arbeitsmarkt bis 2020 erarbeitet. Da sich die Stadt Dresden trotz einer positiven Bevölkerungsentwicklung nicht vom Bevölkerungsrückgang im Umland abkoppeln...

Since the early 1990s, most developing economies have become more integrated with the world's economy. Trade and foreign investment barriers have been progressively lifted and international trade agreements signed. These reforms have led to important changes in the structures of these economies....

This research article reports an investigation of immigration effects on the probability of being part of the formal labor market in Ecuador, a developing South American economy. We use data on the population of Ecuador as collected in the Census of Population and Dwelling 2010. Using a...

Um strukturschwache Regionen zu stärken, wird häufig in Erwägung gezogen, dort öffentliche Behörden anzusiedeln. Die zusätzlichen Arbeitsplätze und der Nachfrageeffekt der öffentlichen Hand sollen sich positiv auf den Arbeitsmarkt vor Ort auswirken. Während die Erwartungen der...