We study the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior. Our measures of commuting exploit geo-coordinates of workers' places of residence and places of work, from which we calculate the door-to-door commuting distance and commuting time. Using German employee-employer...

Für einen Großteil der Beschäftigten in Deutschland gehört das Pendeln zwischen Arbeitsort und Wohnort zum Arbeitsalltag. Dabei wenden Frauen weniger Zeit auf als Männer, um ihren Pendelweg zurückzulegen. Mithilfe der geografischen Koordinaten von Wohnort- und Arbeitsortadressen wird eine...

Based on the geo-referenced data, I analyse the commuting behaviour of employees in Germany. With the help of a behavioural economic approach, which is based on the investigation of Simonsohn (2006) for the US, I can show that it is not only the wage and the individual heterogeneity that shape...

In this study, I investigate the commuting behavior of workers in Germany. Using comprehensive geo-referenced administrative employee and firm data, I can calculate the exact commuting time and the distance between workers’ residence and workplace locations. Based on a behavioral economic...

In this study, I investigate the commuting behavior of workers in Germany. Using comprehensive geo-referenced administrative employee and firm data, I can calculate the exact commuting time and the distance between workers' residence and workplace locations. Based on a behavioral economic...

Many firms in Germany are short of qualified workers, whereby East German regions are particularly affected because of the out-migration to West Germany after the reunification. This gives rise to an important debate for regional policy as the shortage of workers is a major challenge for each...

The German workforce is expected to decline in future and labour-oriented immigration should counteract labour shortages. Fair wages in Germany set incentives for foreigners to immigrate there. Therefore this paper aims to shed new light on the decomposition of the wage gap between foreign and...

Die hier vorliegende Stellungnahme beinhaltet die Antworten des IAB zum Fragenkatalog aller Fraktionen im Rahmen der Anhörung der Enquete-Kommission "Berufliche Bildung in der digita-len Arbeitswelt" des Deutschen Bundestags am 10.12.2018. Der Fragenkatalog deckt ein sehr brei-tes...

Vor dem Hintergrund des bevorstehenden Ausstiegs aus der Kohleverstromung steht die Lausitz als zweitgrößtes Braunkohlerevier Deutschlands vor großen strukturellen Veränderungen. Insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Bruttowertschöpfung wird deutlich, dass der Energiesektor ein zentraler Faktor...