Fragen des Umfangs und der Konsequenzen der künftigen Zuwanderung nach Europa und Deutschland werden in Politik und Öffentlichkeit seit einiger Zeit intensiv diskutiert. Seit langem ist es unter Demographen unumstritten, dass ohne internationale Zuwanderungen in Deutschland eine sich...

Based on theoretical models of job mobility this paper provides an empirical analysis of job durations in West Germany using information from two cohorts of new entrants to the labor force. We adopt an accelerated failure time model allowing for unobserved heterogeneity. Thereby we combine the...

We exploit administrative data on young German workers and their employers to study the long-term effects of an early job loss. To account for non-random sorting of workers into firms with different turnover rates and for selective job mobility, we use changes over time in firm- and age-specific...