results show that job displacement increases the migration probability by ~70%. However, social capital in a region and … housing characteristics decrease the propensity to move, indicating that people do not make the migration decisions solely … based on short-term economic incentives. Migration has an immediate negative relationship with earnings, but the link …

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment … in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of …