We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and the business cycle. The disadvantage from having been unemployed in the previous period is smaller in times of relatively high unemployment and larger in times of low...

In this paper, we study whether performance feedback can serve as an instrument for firms to increase employee retention. Feedback on the relative performance may affect individual job search behavior differently depending on workers' relative rank among their peers. In line with these...

Flexible Arbeitsmodelle sind im Zuge der Digitalisierung stärker in den Fokus von Personalmanagern/-innen gerückt. Auch die Politik widmet sich dem Thema zunehmend, wie der jüngste Vorstoß zur Einführung eines gesetzlichen Rechts auf Homeoffice zeigt. Allerdings sind die Beschäftigten, die...

Das Arbeiten von zu Hause erlebt angesichts der Corona-Krise einen ungeahnten Schub. Tatsächlich wurde das Potenzial an beruflichen Tätigkeiten, die auch im Homeoffice erledigt werden könnten, schon zuvor keineswegs ausgeschöpft und kann auch gegenwärtig noch nicht voll genutzt werden....

The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity...

Regarding social needs in Germany long-term care is an important issue due to an ageing population. Shrinking social networks are leading to a greater need for a public long-term care system. In 1995 the social long-term care insurance was introduced in Germany. In recent years some drawbacks of...

Changes in Dismissal Protection Legislation in Germany have been a subject to ongoing research in the past decade. The majority of these studies, however, has not been able to determine significant effects on job and worker flows in firms affected by the reforms. We estimate the impact of...

The effects of employment breaks on labor market outcomes are of great relevance in particular for females in relation with childbirth. In this paper we estimate the effect of the timing of women's first birth on later labor market outcomes, more precisely the effect on employment. In order to...

We analyze maternity leave durations, transition probabilities within a competing risks model and exit probabilities after maternity leave. Our sample exists of 1200 first-time mothers working in a large German company. With personnel data we observe employment histories with specific...

We examine job durations of German workers using a linked employeremployee dataset. The descriptive evidence suggests that firm characteristics have a substantial influence on the job exit rate. However, the extent of dispersion in durations is not substantially lower at the firm level than for...