While many studies estimated the effects of active labour market programmes (ALMPs) on the participants' labour market outcomes, much fewer studies are concerned with effects of these policies on the regional matching-process between job seekers and vacancies. An essential part of many reforms...

This paper proposes a spatial panel model for German matching functions to avoid possibly biased and inefficient estimates due to spatial dependence. We provide empirical evidence for the presence of spatial dependencies in matching data. Based on an official data set containing monthly...

Die Humankapitaltheorie sagt voraus, dass mit einem Berufswechsel Hu-mankapitalinvestitionen in berufsspezifische Fähigkeiten erforderlich sind. Insofern sollten sich regionale Unterschiede im Berufsangebot auf das erwartete Einkommen in der Zielregion auswirken. Erfassen bestehende...