When workers are displaced from their jobs in mass layoffs or firm closures, they experience lasting adverse labor market consequences. We study how these consequences vary with the amount of skill mismatch that workers experience when returning to the labor market. Using novel measures of skill...

This study investigates the determinants and motives of professionals who change career to vocational teaching. The framework for this study is the Swiss vocational education system, which requires that teachers of vocational subjects must have a prior career in that specific field. Thus, to...

This paper refers to an analysis of matching processes in occupational labour markets in terms of classes of jobs that share extensive commonalities in their required qualifications and tasks. To date, all studies in this field have been based on the assumption of separate occupational labour...

Die Studie "BerufswechslerInnen am österreichischen Arbeitsmarkt: Perspektiven und Chancen in Klein- und Mittelunternehmen" wurde im Auftrag des AMS Österreich, Abteilung Arbeitsmarktforschung und Berufsinformation (ABI), von der KMU FORSCHUNG AUSTRIA (www.kmuforschung.ac.at) in Kooperation...