Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings … in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment … gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The gains vary considerably with pre-migration earnings and …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings … in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment … gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The gains vary considerably with pre-migration earnings and …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings … in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment … gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The gains vary considerably with pre-migration earnings and …

We study migration and commuting among participants in labour market programmes and individuals in open unemployment … the relatively lower probability of migration. Hence, our results indicate that different labour market programmes are … entity, we find interregional commuting to be relatively more important than migration as a means of geographical labour …

results show that job displacement increases the migration probability by ~70%. However, social capital in a region and … housing characteristics decrease the propensity to move, indicating that people do not make the migration decisions solely … based on short-term economic incentives. Migration has an immediate negative relationship with earnings, but the link …

spell at the time of interview and on all previous spells back to one year before is used to construct unemployment duration … data. Unemployment spells are defined as a series of monthly episodes ending up in a transition to job or out of labour … force, or right-censored. For any unemployment spell recorded at the time of interview, the individual is asked to report on …

We build a dynamic model of migration where, in addition to classical mobility costs, workers face informational … magnitude lower than previously reported in the literature and their effect on labor mobility and unemployment is significantly …

migration frictions that stem from China's household registration system (hukou). I rst provide reduced-form evidence that input … consequences. In this process, I develop a novel measure of migration frictions associated with the hukou system. …