Digital technologies will both create new jobs and replace existing ones. To cope with increasing labor market dynamics in the digital age, workers will have to become more mobile across jobs, occupations, and industries. The relative importance of their job-specific skills will decrease while...

Digital technologies will both create new jobs and replace existing ones. To cope with increasing labor market dynamics in the digital age, workers will have to become more mobile across jobs, occupations, and industries. The relative importance of their job-specific skills will decrease while...

This paper investigates the sources of wage growth over the life cycle, where individuals have the possibility to acquire vocational training at the start of their career. Wage growth is determined by sectoral and firm mobility, unobserved ability and the accumulation of human capital. Workers...

Der hier vorgelegte Beitrag entstand aus einer längeren Auseinandersetzung mit dem Beschäftigungssystem der DDR. An anderer Stelle veröffentlichte Thesen und Untersuchungsergebnisse (z.B. Grünert/Lutz 1994, 2. Aufl. 1996; Grünert 1996;Grünert 1997; Grünert/Bernien/Lutz 1997) zur Herausbildung,...

In this paper, job stability is analyzed for Switzerland in the years 1991 to 2001using data from the first 11 waves of the Swiss Labor Force Survey (SLFS). Job stability ismeasured with one-year job separations and with on-the-job search behavior. For bothmeasures, the SLFS has interesting...

In this paper, job mobility is analyzed with microdata on job turnover intentionsfrom a single survey covering 25 countries. Making reference to the vast psychology literatureon this topic, it is argued that these intentions are good predictors for actual turnovers. Sincecross-national evidence...

Beim Übergang von der Industrie- zur Dienstleistungsgesellschaft ist mit Veränderungen auch auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zu rechnen. Eine Reihe von Autoren geht davon aus, dass diese Veränderungen zusammen mit Globalisierung, verschärfter Konkurrenz und verkürzten Innovationszyklen die Betriebe zu...