Job mobility is essential for a well-functioning market economy and for individual workers to boost their wages. This paper provides a re-assessment of job mobility in the United States during 2000-2018, based on a novel administrative data source covering almost all workers and job flows....

Skills shortages have developed in certain fields and regions in recent years. Earnings premiums for people in some professions, notably health, engineering and skilled trades have increased. And vacancy rates have risen for skilled trades, with the increase being particularly large in Alberta...

The labour market in Russia is very flexible. Firms adjust to economic shocks through wage cuts, working hour reductions and minimisation of non-wage labour costs. Workers react by changing jobs. This results in a high and stable overall employment rate, but also high wage inequality,...

Regionale Unterschiede in der demographischen Entwicklung beeinflussen die Wachstumsperspektiven und Arbeitsmarktbedingungen der Regionen in Deutschland erheblich. Hinter diesen demographischen Disparitäten stehen in erster Linie Wanderungsströme. Für eine Einschätzung der wirtschaftlichen...