Despite poor regional labour market conditions East Germans exhibit a rather limited willing-ness of leaving their home region. Applying an IV ordered probit approach and using the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP), we test a local network explanation of lower spatial mobility. Firstly, we find...

Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...

Umfangreiche Personalbewegungen sind ein Zeichen dafür, dass Anpassungsprozesse auf dem Arbeitsmarkt dynamisch verlaufen. Die gesamtwirtschaftliche Fluktuationsrate schwankt in den vergangenen Jahren in einer Bandbreite zwischen 25 und 30 Prozent und bewegt sich damit auf einem vergleichbaren...

Why do young children migrate without a parent? We consider the economic components of the answer to this question by examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 million children appear to have migrated away from home...

This paper establishes the cyclical properties of a novel measure of worker reallocation: long-distance migration rates within the US. This internal migration offers a bird's eye view of worker reallocation in the economy as long-distance migrants often change jobs or employment status, altering...

Low rates of internal migration in many European countries contribute to the persistence of significant regional labor market differences. To further our understanding of the underlying reasons I study internal migration in Germany, using the Mikrozensus, a very large sample of households living...

Der vorliegende Beitrag präsentiert neue und umfangreiche empirische Befunde zur Rückwanderung von Beschäftigten nach Ostdeutschland. Die intensivsten Wanderungsverflechtungen bestanden dabei mit den wirtschaftsstarken Bundesländern Bayern und Baden-Württemberg. Eine kleinräumige...

Most empirical studies of individual migration choice analyse factors associated with out-migration from an origin location. In contrast, we model the migration decision within the context of potential destinations, combining British panel data over the period 1992-2007 with other data sources....