increase uncertainty through a higher volatility of employment. We use regional data from Germany to test whether openness for … trade has an impact on volatility. We find a downward trend in the unconditional volatility of employment, which has been … evidence for the US, we do not find evidence for a significant link between employment volatility and trade openness. …

For most workers, access to suitable employment is severely restricted by the fact that they look for jobs in the …-step procedure to control for selective access to employment. The results show that the size of the labour market is an important …

structural breaks in the dynamics and the volatility of the real output process in Germany can be detected. We report evidence … that output volatility has declined in Germany. Yet, this decline in output volatility is not as clear-cut as it is in the …Stylized facts suggest that output volatility in OECD countries has declined in recent years. However, the causes and …

of the fall of the Iron Curtain on the regional differ-ences in unemployment, the skill structure of employment and wages …

From a theoretical point of view, greater trade openness affects firm-level volatility by changing the exposure and the … link between openness and volatility. Using two novel datasets on German firms, we analyze the evolution of firm …-level output volatility and the link between volatility and trade openness. We find that firm-level output volatility displays …

' activities is associated with an increase in firm-level employment volatility. We use a firm-level dataset for Germany which … that are active in Germany. We decompose the volatility of firms into their reaction and their exposure to aggregate …

raise local wages and employment for native employees. For low-skilled foreign workers we find negative size effects …

. Based on different estimation strategies and taking a number of features of the re-unified German economy into account, we … unemployment, employment and land prices. …