Despite poor regional labour market conditions East Germans exhibit a rather limited willing-ness of leaving their home region. Applying an IV ordered probit approach and using the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP), we test a local network explanation of lower spatial mobility. Firstly, we find...

"The Research Data Center (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg provides access to data of the German Job Vacancy Survey (EGS). The EGS includes information about the labour demand and the recruitment processes on the German...