Für einen Großteil der Beschäftigten in Deutschland gehört das Pendeln zwischen Arbeitsort und Wohnort zum Arbeitsalltag. Dabei wenden Frauen weniger Zeit auf als Männer, um ihren Pendelweg zurückzulegen. Mithilfe der geografischen Koordinaten von Wohnort- und Arbeitsortadressen wird eine...

Hinter den Nettobeschäftigungsverlusten in den neuen Bundesländern verbergen sich ausgeprägte Bruttoströme von Beschäftigungsgewinnen und -verlusten. Die betriebliche Beschäftigungsdynamik, die mit dem Konzept des Job-Turnover analysiert werden kann und Anfang der neunziger Jahre in...

"We analyze the relation between population aging and the decline of unemployment in East Germany for the years from 1996 to 2012. To this we scrutinize both a direct and an indirect effect of aging on unemployment. The direct effect includes a decomposition of the East German unemployment rate...

"After years of declining employment and high unemployment, the situation on the East German labour market changed profoundly in the middle of the 2000s. Given the more pronounced demographic change it is expected that in East Germany the recruitment of skilled workers will become more difficult...

Against the background of bad labor market conditions with high unemployment, poor job prospects, and low wages, East Germany used to experience long-standing high net migration outflows. During the last years, however, the situation on the East German labor market changed fundamentally, and...

This paper deals with the question whether firms' employment performance in the periods preceding their exit can be regarded as casting a 'Shadow of Death' on their final leaving the market. This aspect is of high relevance for politicians and other decision-makers, because by knowing more about...

In East Germany a profound demographic change has been taking place that manifests itself in the shrinkage and the aging of the population. One major cause is the drop in the East German fertility rates by about half directly after the reunification of Germany in 1990. In no other countries of...

Die vorliegende Studie analysiert die aktuelle Situation auf dem Pflegearbeitsmarkt in Sachsen und gibt einen Ausblick auf die zukünftig benötigte Zahl an Pflegearbeitskräften. Die Pflegebranche und die zentralen Pflegeberufe werden dabei auf der Basis von Datenquellen der Bundesagentur für...

The question whether agglomeration effects are of importance for regional development has a long tradition in regional science. This paper asks if regional characteristics and specifically ag-glomeration effects influence the performance of plants in Germany and, if so, in which direction....