commuting developed in Monte et al. (2018) to address the workings of local labor markets in Germany. One key contribution …This paper uses the quantitative spatial model with heterogeneous locations linked by costly goods trade, migration and … commuting measures have very little predictive power for these general equilibrium elasticities when the housing share is small …

address the role of housing markets for quantitative analyses. Germany is an exciting laboratory because commuting across …. First, we explore the role of commuting for local labor markets and their capacity to absorb productivity shocks. Second, we … local labor markets is pervasive, unique data are available, and because Germany's high degree of trade openness poses a …

heterogeneity in Germany's complex interregional linkages. I find that population mobility reduces the magnitude of local employment …

these factors, differences in commuting distance plays the most important role. In France, though, longer commuting …

workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch …

workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch …

whether the commute has a positive effect on worker’s absenteeism. Our estimates for Germany indicate that commuting distance … induces absenteeism with an elasticity of about 0.07. On average, absenteeism would be about 16 percent less if all workers …

interregional migration of workers. We investigate the impact of labour mobility on regional disparities in Germany between 1995 and … 2005. Considering the impact of migration as well as commuting, effects on regional wages and unemployment are estimated …Differences in regional labour market conditions are still pronounced in Germany, especially between the Eastern and …

Unterschiede in den regionalen Arbeitsmarktbedingungen prägen Deutschland seit längerem, besonders zwischen dem … können. Wir untersuchen den Einfluss der Arbeitskräftemobilität auf regionale Unterschiede in Deutschland zwischen 1995 und …