explanation of lower spatial mobility. Firstly, we find that membership in locally bounded social networks reduces regional … mobility. Secondly, we show that native East Germans are more invested in this type of social networks than West Germans …. Thirdly, after controlling for the social network effect the mobility gap between East and West substantially reduces. Thus …

In a recent paper, Homburg and Richter have argued that with free mobility of labor within a common labor market there … allocation of labor. We show that with free and unrestricted mobility of labor there is no need for consolidation. In contrast …, if mobility is restricted in such a way that fertility-caused differences in popula-tion growth cannot be equalized by …

even if it depresses human capital formation. We further explore how the degree of labour mobility and the strength of the …

Regionstypen. -- Inter-regional migration ; job mobility ; contemporaneous returns ; wage growth ; regional characteristics …

,985 workplaces, our results show that firms belonging to networks of local job mobility (i.e. ‘localized mobility clusters … externalities derived via local job mobility produce significantly more powerful effects for the involved firms as compared to the …