German employment protection legislation has recently come under criticism. Some complain that the employment protection legislation no longer protects the employment relationship against the arbitrary termination by the employer. Others emphasize that dismissal protection restricts firms'...

We investigate how the demographic composition of the workforce along the sex, nationality, education, age and tenure dimensions affects job switches. Fitting duration models for workers’ job-to-job turnover rate that control for workplace fixed effects in a representative sample of large...