This paper provides the first analysis of employer search using duration methods for theUK. We model both the duration of employer search and whether employers succeed infilling vacancies. We present the appropriate econometric techniques for dealing withgroups of identical vacancies posted...

Employing a large individual-level administrative dataset from Great Britain, coveringthe period 1999-2005, we analyse the factors inuencing the length of unemployment benetsclaimant periods with subsequent transition to re-employment. To this end, this individual-level data is merged with a...

For the evaluation of policy reforms numerous governments use, among other sources,administrative social security data. Although this data is large and contains detailed in-formation about policy measures, it inherits several limitations due to the administrativeprocess of generating data. This...

Die Zahl der Existenzgründungen belief sich nach Berechnungen des IfMBonn1 auf Basis der Gewerbeanzeigenstatistik2 in Deutschland im 1. bis 3.Quartal 2009 auf rund 313.000 (siehe Abbildung 1). Verglichen mit dem Vorjahrist die Zahl der Existenzgründungen damit um 1,8 % gestiegen (siehe...

We develop a simple labour turnover model of general training. Upon completion of theirtraining, apprentices are equipped with general skills and they accumulate firm-specificskills by continuing working for their training firm. Job turnover is associated with a loss ofaccumulated firm-specific...