spell at the time of interview and on all previous spells back to one year before is used to construct unemployment duration … data. Unemployment spells are defined as a series of monthly episodes ending up in a transition to job or out of labour … force, or right-censored. For any unemployment spell recorded at the time of interview, the individual is asked to report on …

A sizeable literature analyses how immigration affects attitudes towards migrants and discusses differences between … background of the large-scale influx of refugees into Germany between 2015 and 2016, this paper uses data from a unique and … representative survey of the German population to assess whether respondents express fears of job loss due to immigration. We focus …

A sizeable literature analyses how immigration affects attitudes towards migrants and discusses differences between … background of the large-scale influx of refugees into Germany between 2015 and 2016, this paper uses data from a unique and … representative survey of the German population to assess whether respondents express fears of job loss due to immigration. We focus …

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 …