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regional mobility in West Germany but higher occupational mobility in East Germany. The results show that if occupations were …
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Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with groups of West German statistical twin workers, all taken from the Socio …. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in … East and West Germany are still characterized by wage differences but that the degree of inequality in both regions …
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migration of unemployed workers in Germany. Our findings weakly indicate that reducing the entitlement length for unemployment …
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Decisions taken at the start of one’s career have long-term consequences and one important decision graduates have to make is whether to be regionally mobile when looking for the first job. We investigate whether being regionally mobile for the first job following graduation rather than to...
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investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that favor migrating out of declining regions … indicate that unemployed in West Germany are responsive to local labor market conditions and are more likely to leave regions …
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This paper focuses on the pre-establishment period of start-ups in industrial districts. The industrial architecture is what I call a "rationed agglomeration" in which some entrepreneurs gather around an established firm while other entrepreneurs in the same business stand alone. In a rationed...
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Germany, I find that workers in large cities are both less likely to be overqualified for their job and to work in a different …
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In the last ten years the space issue, i.e. the study of the role played by space in economic phenomena, has attracted a lot of interest from many economic fields. The combination of increasing returns, market imperfections, and trade costs creates forces that, together with factor endowments,...
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