This paper documents whether female East-West migrants in Germany after the reunification experience a gain or a …

markets in Germany. This result is robust to stratifying by age, sex, education, national origin, and a variety of other …

market differences. To further our understanding of the underlying reasons I study internal migration in Germany, using the … Mikrozensus, a very large sample of households living in Germany. The first contribution of this paper is to quantify the low …

home on commuting time are biased downward because most studies ignore preference based sorting (self-selection): workers … who dislike commuting, and hence have shorter commutes, might also be more likely to work from home.In this paper we … percent higher marginal cost of one-way commuting time, compared to non-telecommuters. We estimate the effect of telecommuting …

commuting developed in Monte et al. (2018) to address the workings of local labor markets in Germany. One key contribution … commuting measures have very little predictive power for these general equilibrium elasticities when the housing share is small … housing share has only little influence on the welfare effects and location patterns of counterfactual commuting cost …

commuting distance using the socio-economic panel data for Germany between 1997 and 2007. Endogeneity of commuting distance is … only reduce their commuting costs by reducing total labour supply. However, a labour supply model which also allows for … optimally chosen daily hours implies that commuting costs increase daily hours, whereas the effect on total labour supply is …

In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel …