We study the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior. Our measures of commuting exploit geo-coordinates of workers' places of residence and places of work, from which we calculate the door-to-door commuting distance and commuting time. Using German employee-employer...

Job displacement results in large and persistent earnings losses, but less is known about the non-monetary costs of job losses or workers' valuation for such costs. In this paper, we identify and quantify the impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior. Combining German...

We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare the results for Ethnic Germans with those for foreigners from the same origin countries and Native Germans. In the first case, the two have the same labour market access but...