biographies, we estimate the model and decompose welfare costs. We find that unemployment is a small factor: Higher wages and job …

' careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany …

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for France, Germany, and the UK. The empirical analysis is based on … France and Germany. The results indicate that in these two countries, which provide more generous benefits relative to the UK …"This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using …

proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of … deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany. Policy reforms i) and ii …

ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A … support for these predictions. -- immigration ; sectoral change ; output growth ; post-war Germany …

. Historically established institutional complementarities between labor market regulation, unemployment protection, and vocational …-protecting, earnings-related unemployment insurance, skills-oriented active labor market policies and strong dismissal protection so that … possible due to a less regulated institutional environment. -- Service sector ; Germany ; dual labor market ; low-skilled work …

This paper analyzes the interaction between structural change and labor market dynamics in West Germany, during a … nonparticipation rather than unemployment; contracting sectors reduced their net employment primarily via lower accessions from …

manufacturing decline in Germany. It even retained those jobs in the economy. …