immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labor markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labor markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

great range of geographical origins and cultural backgrounds of immigrants make the study of the determinants and the …

high-skill workers.In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …

Most immigrant groups experience higher rates of unemployment than the host countries native population, but it is as … investigate how the job search methods of unemployed immigrants compare with those of the native born, using panel data from the … native born and immigrant groups, in terms of their impact on the duration of unemployment. Our main finding is that …

Using data from the CPS this paper examines the role of birth-country networks on immigrants' unemployment duration … from 2001 to 2013. We find that networks significantly lower unemployment duration for all immigrants. Varying the effect … of networks over duration categories we find that networks are more effective in lowering duration for immigrants …

literature? and the ?discrimination literature?. We estimate separate wage equations for natives and a number of immigrant groups … of qualifications and incomplete assimilation, and that a large fraction of that gap would disappear if only immigrants …

literature" and the "discrimination literature". We estimate separate wage equations for natives and a number of immigrant groups … of qualifications and incomplete assimilation, and that a large fraction of that gap would disappear if only immigrants …

German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data for the years 2000 to 2016, we analyse unemployment durations and unemployment …-term unemployment. Furthermore, the duration of unemployment prior to finding a new job rises with age. This pattern is particularly … between unemployment and an individual’s subsequent wage. This depressing impact is significant only for unqualified workers …