Using the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel, this note reports direct empirical evidence for significant … correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts …, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). …

incumbent firms. Our results indicate that individuals' employment stability was higher in incumbent than in newly founded firms … while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration …

apprenticeship training have longer job durations. In contrast, the larger the number of unemployment and employment spells, the …Based on theoretical models of job mobility this paper provides an empirical analysis of job durations in West Germany …

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 …