Job mobility and employment durations can be explained by different theoretical approaches, such as job matching or … Germany. Our results give some support to the job matching model: individuals with a high risk of being bad matches exhibit …

determined by the overall unemployment rate. It is argued both on analytical and numerical grounds that the second alternative is … the only plausible one. This conclusion is confirmed by an explicit integration of workers´inter-sectoral mobility into …

This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning … as a measure for worker mobility. Churning depicts the number of workers which are replaced by new ones. It is a very …

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two … ways. First, we examine the correlation between training and mobility. In a second step, we consider wage effects of …

Arbeitspapier neuere Entwicklungen innerhalb eines Zweiges informationsökonomischer Ansätze vorgestellt: der Suchtheorie. Dabei … das Resultat der klassischen Arbeitsmarkttheorie, dass gewerkschaftliche Lohnbeeiflussung zu höherer Arbeitslosigkeit … führt, im Kontext der Suchtheorie valide ist. Auf dem Weg hin zu einer empirisch gültigen Theorie des Arbeitsmarktes stellt …

our hypothesis by comparing measures of innovativeness. Based on matching (selectivity on observable covariates) in a …

propensity score matching estimators. To explain potential differences in effects between the groups, we suggest and apply a … decomposition method based on the matching procedure that allows identification of differences due to observable characteristics and …

In this study, I analyze the relationship between IT use and wages in West Germany in 1998/99. I use two estimation … approaches: regression based matching and matching on the propensity score. The richness of the data set favors the use of these …