We analyse the impact of increased immigration on labour market outcomes of natives in Germany using a dataset of … previous level. Especially for unemployment we find large effects of an increased foreign share. We conjecture that these … results might be spurious. Foreigners tend to be concentrated in lower unemployment areas but unemployment tends to be mean …

The purpose of this paper is to link the twin horns of the European economic dilemma - unemployment and a loss in … international competitiveness - to a lack of innovative activity. In Germany the Innovationskrise (innovation crisis) combines with … the Standortkrise (location crisis) and the Arbeitslosenkrise (unemployment crisis) to form a triad of economic challenges …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …

Using data from the 1981 Family Expenditure Survey we estimate a logit model for the choice between unemployment and … characteristics of the households in the survey and unemployment rates in the industries in which the households usually work. The … influence of tax-benefit reforms on unemployment using an equation that attaches a moderately strong prior belief to the theory. …

elasticities for those who experienced unemployment during the previous year and those on higher incomes; for average employed men …

. Furthermore, they fail to allow for quantity rationing and to model unemployment as a catastrophic event. The macroeconomics based …

The aim of this paper is to better understand the impact of unemployment on the design of Pay-As-You-Go pension systems … unemployment rate and the length of life. We then characterize the issue-by-issue voting equilibrium and compare it to the optimal …