durations are matched to firms offering stable employment (and vice versa). An extension of the model to a competing … destination states. Among the substantive results, it would appear that works councils decrease exit both to unemployment and to …

between long and short employment spells within establishments. Using the Cox partial likelihood estimator, we then examine …

regional mobility in West Germany but higher occupational mobility in East Germany. The results show that if occupations were …

' careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany … persistent employment and wage losses in regions where such occupations decline the most. Regional and occupational mobility …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

-seekers in order to increase employment integration. Based on merged survey and register data differences in job finding chances … attributes. The estimates clarify that current active labor market programs do not address important factors of employment …. Particularly, health of the job seekers, limitations in the working ability and obstacles to employment comprising substance abuse …

employment subsample 1975- 1997 is used for the analysis. It contains employment and unemployment trajectories of about 500 … length of unemployment duration. A large share of long term unemployment with only few exits to employment is observed in …This paper analyzes changes in the risk of unemployment and changes in the distribution of unemployment duration for …

data covering the time period 1980 to 1991 in West Germany and is based on a hazard rate model. …

data covering the time period 1980 to 1991 in West Germany and is based on a hazard rate model. …