This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...

Dieser Beitrag begibt sich mittels multinomialer logistischer Regressionen auf die Suche nach Bestimmungsfaktoren für den Suchverlauf bei erfolgreichen Stellenbesetzungen. Hierzu werden drei Verlaufstypen unterschieden und auf Zusammenhänge insbesondere mit Merkmalen der Stelle und des...

In the demographic change, a prolongation of individual employment and thus of beginning a new employment in later stages of the work life is of growing importance. On the base of microeconomic data (establishment panel of the IAB), this paper analyses firms' characteristics correlating with...