, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and institutions in the labor market. There is particular emphasis on the …

Unemployment has been at unacceptable levels for at least twenty-five years and is probably Australia’s most serious … economic and social problem. Emphasising the economics of the unemployment problem and focussing mainly on the labour market, a … historical approach was used which viewed unemployment as consisting of two parts: a cyclical component and an underlying …

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990’s had no adverse effects on native wages and … ‘flexible’ as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …

-term consequences of doing so. The second essay, “The Role of Reservation Wages in Youth Unemployment in South Africa: A Structural … about the relationship between search costs and labor market outcomes. The final essay, “The Impact of Mexican Immigration … effect of immigration on U.S. labor market outcomes using a novel source of exogenous variation in migrant inflows. Rainfall …

aid, as well as the impact of those flows on receiving markets. The first essay finds that the composition of immigrant … relatively unskilled immigrant labor will raise the private return to higher education, while increases in immigrant students … latter. I find that native college enrollment rates increase in states experiencing inflows of relatively unskilled immigrant …

. Theory predicts that an increase in native supply will lower the earnings a new immigrant can expect, and immigrants thus …

This paper extends the traditional static focus of research on the labour market assimilation of migrants in Australia … Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA) covers two cohorts of recent migrants to Australia that differ considerably … in immigration selection criteria and other policy settings, as well as in the macroeconomic employment conditions at …

, immigration, incentives, discrimination, unemployment and unemployment insurance. … collective bargaining relationship, discrimination, human capital, and unemployment. From the course home page: Course …

Incluye bibliografía ; The Phillips curve has flattened in Spain over 1995-2006: unemployment has fallen by 15 … from the immigration boom in Spain over this period. We show that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is shifted by … immigration if natives' and immigrants' labor supply or bargaining power differ. Estimation of the curve for Spain indicates that …

the quality of migrants has taken place over the recent years. This skill upgrading of new immigrant cohorts is evident in … migrants from outside the EU-15 in Spain. Using our panel dataset we show that immigrants reduce around the half of the initial … our results given that immigration phenomenon is quite recent in the Spanish labour market and it has taken place in an …