We investigate the impact of new business formation on regional employment. The main effects occur after a considerable time lag. Obviously, a large part of the effect is not due to job creation by the newcomers but rather is of indirect nature. This implies that a large part of the debate about...

"The labour-market policy-mix in Germany is increasingly being decided on a regional level. This requires additional knowledge about the regional development which (disaggregated) national forecasts cannot provide. Therefore, we separately forecast employment for the 176 German labour- market...

"'What makes start-ups out of unemployment different?' To answer this question we formulate a theoretical sketch for start-up activity out of unemployment. Furthermore, we estimate spatial autoregressive models for the regional start-up rates out of unemployment as well as out of employment with...

"We forecast unemployment for the 176 German labour-market districts on a monthly basis. Because of their small size, strong spatial interdependencies exist between these regional units. To account for these as well as for the heterogeneity in the regional development over time, we apply...

We examine job creation and destruction in Eastern and Western Germany for the period of 1999 to 2004, using a large dataset, which enables us to capture clearly entries and exits. There are pronounced differences between the two parts of Germany in terms of magnitude and composition of gross...

"This paper deals with the medium-term effects of job mobility on the average wage growth of job movers in East Germany. The analysis is based on all employees subject to social insurance contributions working in East Germany in 2004. Using a statistical matching procedure combined with a...

Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, ob Betriebswechsler ein höheres Wachstum ihres Entgelts erzielen im Vergleich zur hypothetischen Situation, dass diese Wechsler ihren Herkunftsbetrieb nicht verlassen hätten. Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage verwenden wir die Grundgesamtheit aller...

Die vorliegende Studie analysiert die räumliche und berufliche Mobilität von Auszubildenden in Sachsen. Dazu werden zwei Kohorten betrachtet: diejenigen, die im Jahr 2000 bzw. 2010 erstmalig eine betriebliche Berufsausbildung in Sachsen begonnen haben. Für diese Kohorten wird der...