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The valuation of changes in commuting distances : an analysis using georeferenced data

Dauth, Wolfgang; Haller, Peter - 2016

We analyze the causal effect of commuting on wages, using a large sample of German job changers. Information on their home and workplace addresses in combination with road navigation software allows us to calculate exact door-to-door commuting distances with an unprecedented degree of precision....

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Social Networks, Job Search Methods and Reservation Wages : Evidence for Germany

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

In this paper we analyze the relationship between social networks and the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. It is believed that networks convey useful information in the job search process such that individuals with larger networks should experience a higher productivity of informal...

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Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality : A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by …

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Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality

Caliendo, Marco; Kuenn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2012

incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …

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Do startups provide employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers?

Fackler, Daniel; Fuchs, Michaela; Hölscher, Lisa; … - 2018

instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …

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Job mobility and assortative matching

Braunschweig, Luisa; Dauth, Wolfgang; Roth, Duncan - 2024

We examine the development of worker-firm matching over the career due to job mobility. Using administrative employer …

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Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2011

Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his...

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Working from home increases work‑home distances

Coskun, Sena; Dauth, Wolfgang; Gartner, Hermann; Stops, … - 2024

This paper examines how the shift towards working from home during and after the Covid-19 pandemic shapes the way how labor market and locality choices interact. For our analysis, we combine large administrative data on employment biographies in Germany and a new working from home potential...

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Job polarization on local labor markets

Dauth, Wolfgang - 2014

The labor markets of most industrialized countries are polarized. This means that employment has grown in jobs at the upper and lower tails of the wage distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or declined. However, there exists no measure that allows a...

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The rise of the East and the far East : German labor markets and trade integration

Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2012

-oriented industries, however, experienced even stronger employment gains and lower unemployment. In the aggregate, we estimate that this …

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