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A new career in a new town : job search methods and regional mobility of unemployed workers

Morescalchi, Andrea - 2016

data. Unemployment spells are defined as a series of monthly episodes ending up in a transition to job or out of labour …

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Frictional labor mobility

Schmutz, Benoît; Sidibé, Modibo - 2016

We build a dynamic model of migration where, in addition to classical mobility costs, workers face informational frictions that decrease their ability to compete for distant job opportunities. We structurally estimate the model on a matched employer-employee panel dataset describing labor market...

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The Geographical Mobility of Unemployed Workers

Arntz, Melanie - 2008

Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that favor migrating out of declining regions. Moreover, the paper investigates how such...

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Beyond lost earnings : the long-term impact of jobdisplacement on workers' commuting behavior

Duan, Yige; Jost, Oskar; Jost, Ramona - 2022

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...

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The labor market costs of job displacement by migrant status

Balgova, Maria; Illing, Hannah - 2024

This paper examines the differential impact of job displacement on migrants and natives. Using administrative data for Germany from 1997-2016, we identify mass layoffs and estimate the trajectory of earnings and employment of observationally similar migrants and natives displaced from the same...

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Migration experience and access to a first job in Uganda

Boutin, Delphine - 2016

the gap in transition length to a first job between young people in Uganda that have ever migrated inside the country and … young age, other before the end of school and other have never attended school), different starting points of transition are … proportional hazards models shows that transition duration is shorter for migrants than for non-migrants (except for the school …

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Job displacement and migrant labor market assimilation

Balgova, Maria; Illing, Hannah - 2023

This paper sheds new light on the barriers to migrants' labor market assimilation. Using administrative data for Germany from 1997-2016, we estimate dynamic difference-in-differences regressions to investigate the relative trajectory of earnings, wages, and employment following mass layoff...

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Job displacement and migrant labor market assimilation

Balgova, Maria; Illing, Hannah - 2023

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Social ties for labor market access : lessons from the migration of East German inventors

Dorner, Matthias; Harhoff, Dietmar; Hinz, Tina; Hoisl, Karin - 2016

We study the impact of social ties on the migration of inventors from East to West Germany, using the fall of the Iron Curtain and German reunification as a natural experiment. We identify East German inventors via their patenting track records prior to 1990 and their social security records in...

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Regional Labor Mobility in Spain

Liu, Lucy Qian - 2019

This paper studies the main factors that explain the low regional mobility in Spain, with a view to identifying policy options at the regional and central level to promote labor mobility. The empirical analysis finds that house prices, labor market conditions, and the pervasiveness of labor...

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