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By examining the destination choice patterns of heterogenous labor, this paper tries to explain the skill composition of internal job matching flows in Germany. Estimates from a nested logit model of destination choice suggest that spatial job matching patterns by high-skilled individuals are...
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The paper analyzes effects of occupational and regional mobility on the matching rate using the monthly panel disaggregated on regional and occupational level. The main contribution of the paper is measuring the effect of substitutability between vacancies for different occupations and vacancies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298786
This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage-maximizing process may be inadequate due to regional wage rigidities that result from central wage bargaining. In such a context, the framework that has been developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307843
This paper examines how municipal taxes respond to the local impact of a labor market shock. The analysis exploits a commuting policy that liberalized cross-border labor markets between Switzerland and the EU. The reform was implemented at a time of skilled labor shortages and led to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309905
This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage-maximizing process may be inadequate due to regional wage rigidities that result from central wage bargaining. In such a context, the framework that has been developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646606
The paper analyzes effects of occupational and regional mobility on the matching rate using the monthly panel disaggregated on regional and occupational level. The main contribution of the paper is measuring the effect of substitutability between vacancies for different occupations and vacancies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097969
By examining the destination choice patterns of heterogenous labor, this paper tries to explain the skill composition of internal job matching flows in Germany. Estimates from a nested logit model of destination choice suggest that spatial job matching patterns by high-skilled individuals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098225
Worker remittances constitute an increasingly important mechanism for the transfer of resources from developed to … developing countries, and remittances are the second-largest source, behind foreign direct investment, of external funding for … developing countries. Yet, literature on worker remittances has so far focused mainly on the impact of remittances on income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297353
Worker remittances constitute an increasingly important mechanism for the transfer of resources from developed to … developing countries, and remittances are the second-largest source, behind foreign direct investment, of external funding for … developing countries. Yet, literature on worker remittances has so far focused mainly on the impact of remittances on income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097727
Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that favor migrating out of declining regions. Moreover, the paper investigates how such...
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