The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined...

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...

We investigate a prevalent, but understudied, employment protection policy: mandatory advance notice (MN), requiring employers to notify employees of forthcoming layoffs. MN increases future production, as notified workers search on the job, but reduces current production as they supply less...

We study the causal effects of previous experience and language skills when newly arrived refugees in Sweden apply for job openings by means of a field experiment. Applications were sent from randomly assigned fictitious Syrian refugees with experience in jobs with low skill requirements and...