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Do reservation wages react to regional unemployment?
Blien, Uwe; Messmann, Susanne; Trappmann, Mark - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
capacity. In important theoretical approaches it is assumed that this threshold depends on the unemployment rate. If this is … estimated in many empirical studies. Up to now, the connection of regional unemployment with reservation wages has not been … between unemployment and reservation wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641645
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Do reservation wages react to regional unemployment?
Blien, Uwe; Messmann, Susanne; Trappmann, Mark - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
capacity. In important theoretical approaches it is assumed that this threshold depends on the unemployment rate. If this is … estimated in many empirical studies. Up to now, the connection of regional unemployment with reservation wages has not been … between unemployment and reservation wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592271
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Job polarization on local labor markets
Dauth, Wolfgang - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888523
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Does labour mobility reduce disparities between regional labour markets in Germany?
Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Granato, Nadia; Haas, Anette; … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009
2005. Considering the impact of migration as well as commuting, effects on regional wages and unemployment are estimated … unemployment disparities." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025329
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The German-Czech border region after the fall of the Iron Curtain: Effects on the labour market : an empirical study using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS)
Moritz, Michael; Gröger, Margit - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
"Using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS) covering 1980-2001 we investigate what impact the fall of the Iron Curtain has had on the skill structure of employment and wages in the western German districts neighbouring the Czech Republic. The introduction of free trade in this region, which has one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005342789
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Spatial effects of open borders on the Czech labour market
Moritz, Michael - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
of the fall of the Iron Curtain on the regional differences in unemployment, the skill structure of employment and wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005342790
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Do small labor market entry cohorts reduce unemployment?
Garloff, Alfred; Pohl, Carsten; Schanne, Norbert - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"In this paper we study the effect of small labor market entry cohorts on (un)employment in Western Germany. From a … theoretical point of view, decreasing cohort sizes may on the one hand reduce unemployment due to 'inverse cohort crowding' or on … the other hand increase unemployment if companies reduce jobs disproportionately. Consequently, the actual effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293298
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Einkommenseffekte von Betriebswechslern : neue Befunde für Ostdeutschland
Alm, Bastian; Engel, Dirk; Weyh, Antje - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"This paper deals with the medium-term effects of job mobility on the average wage growth of job movers in East Germany. The analysis is based on all employees subject to social insurance contributions working in East Germany in 2004. Using a statistical matching procedure combined with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010666618
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Human capital mobility and convergence : a spatial dynamic panel model of the German regions
Kubis, Alexander; Schneider, Lutz - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"Since the fall of the iron curtain in 1989, the migration deficit of the Eastern part of Germany has accumulated to 1.8 million people, which is over 10 percent of its initial population. Depending on their human capital endowment, these migrants might either - in the case of low-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643128
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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants : quasi-experimental evidence from the guest-worker placement in Germany (Ethnische Konzentration und Sprachkompetenz von Ei...
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"The paper analyses the impact of regional own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants. It solves the endogeneity of immigrants' location choices by exploiting the fact that guest-workers in Germany after WWII were initially placed by firms and labor agencies. We find a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520390