are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as skilled jobs (cross-skill matching), then their expected time to find a … jobs (ex post segmented matching), it might be that the high-skilled actually need longer to find a job. We then provide … empirical evidence by studying the labour-market integration process of Ethnic Germans, one of the largest immigration groups in …

career the question arises whether labor market entry via temporary work agency (TWA) employment has any (persistent) effects … apprenticeship system which is merged with the employment biographies of more than 8,000 apprenticeship graduates for the 1999 …-term wage effects of TWA employment. Our results point to a rather pronounced wage gap and persistent adverse wage effects. But …

changes. While employment and welfare increase in most countries, some experience higher unemployment and lower welfare. Labor … assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. We develop a … labor market reforms for 28 OECD countries. Welfare effects of trade agreements are magnified when accounting for employment …

This paper examines recent trends in employment patterns on the labor market for youth and changing returns to early … employment stability over the past four decades. True state dependence is identified by exploiting exogenous variation in …. The results indicate decreasing employment stability for youth since the late 1980s limited to the lower half of the …

We analyse the treatment effects of a large scale German active labour market program. Modellprojekte Bürgerarbeit is a … modified public employment scheme, with an activation period as a first step. Using data from individual employment records we …

unemployment in Germany, as well as several usually not observed characteristics like personality traits, attitudes, expectations …