Using administrative data on individual workers' employment history and firms, we investigate the cyclicality of worker flows on the German labour market. Focusing on heterogeneities on both sides of the labour market, we find that small firms hire much more workers from unemployment than large...

Der deutsche Markt für Informationstechnik befindet sich auf einem soliden Wachstumspfad. Nach Einschätzung des Fachverbandes Informationstechnik im VDMA und ZVEI dürften die Umsätze für Software, informationstechnische Dienstleistungen und Hardware 1999 um rund 9,5% zugenommen haben. Für...

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of labour market dynamics in Western Ger- many by looking at gross worker flows. To do so, we use a subsample of the registry data collected by the German social security system, the IAB employment sample, for the time period 1975-2001. The...