We study the importance of firm sorting for spatial inequality. If productive locations are able to attract the most productive firms, then firm sorting acts as an amplifier of spatial inequality. We develop a novel model of spatial firm sorting, in which heterogeneous firms first choose a...

The paper analyzes effects of occupational and regional mobility on the matching rate using the monthly panel disaggregated on regional and occupational level. The main contribution of the paper is measuring the effect of substitutability between vacancies for different occupations and vacancies...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the subsequent reunification process between the former centrally planned GDR and the market-oriented Federal Republic of Germany, rapidly raised fears about mass migration movements from the eastern to the western part. The anxiety of an...

Auch 20 Jahre nach dem Fall der Mauer ist das Phänomen der Ost-West-Migration innerhalb Deutschlands nach wie vor von großer Bedeutung. Das Ausmaß sowie die Selektivität dieser Wanderungsbewegungen erreichte dabei ungeahnte Dimensionen. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysiert und beantwortet die...