With an estimated 724 million extreme poor people living in developing countries, and the world's demographics bifurcating into an older North and a younger South, there are substantial economic incentives and benefits for people to migrate. There are also important market and regulatory...

Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other countries. This is a cause for concern because internal migration for economic reasons can promote the agglomeration of economic activity in more productive locations and...

This paper evaluates the impact of slowing economic growth on labor market dynamism and misallocation. It provides a model of endogenous growth via imitation in a frictional labor market. The framework accounts for rich data on worker job-to-job transitions as well as stochastic and lifecycle...

Do recessions speed up or impede productivity-enhancing reallocation? To investigate this question, we use U.S. linked employer-employee data to examine how worker flows contribute to productivity growth over the business cycle. We find that in expansions high-productivity firms grow faster...

Gliederung: I. Einleitung: Arbeitsmarktübergänge als wissenschaftliches und theoretisches Problemfeld. - II. Arbeitsmarktübergänge, Wohlfahrtsstaat, Übergangsarbeitsmärkte und Beschäftigungssysteme. - III. Indikatoren zur Erfassung von Übergangsdynamiken (1. Stromindikatoren. - 2. Die...