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 …

: an internal migration function is estimated using district wage and unemployment rate differentials. The aggregate level … wages and unemployment, included in the migration equation, are retrieved from a first stage wage and unemployment equations …. The results reveal that both wage and unemployment differentials are important determinants of the propensity to migrate …

labour mobility as pillar for the functioning of currency areas. Applying the CGE model PuMA, we quantitatively analyse to … what extent labour mobility can contribute to reducing imbalances within the Euro area. Our results indicate that it can … temporarily reduce unemployment and increase wages in periphery countries at the cost of somewhat higher unemployment in receiving …

This paper uses the immigration sample of the German Socioeconomic Panel to analyse the earnings and unemployment … earnings differential between immigrants from Eastern Europe and comparable East Germans at the time of immigration. With … Poland and the former USSR have higher unemployment risks than those from East Germany or Romania. Ethnic networks are shown …

major challenges for policy makers in Finland. The recession of the early 1990s showed that high unemployment can leave long …, greater flexibility in wage setting, ensuring earlier activation of unemployed and reforming unemployment and social benefits … to better support work incentives. Finland has an unusual combination of elevated unemployment replacement rates and late …

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, labour markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration of immigrants (as well as integration of second …immigration for natives' labour market outcomes, as well as issues linked to immigrants' integration in the host … country labour market. Changes in the share of immigrants in the labour force may have a distributive impact on natives' wages …