Using quarterly data for the U.K. from 1993 through 2012, we document that in economic downturns a smaller fraction of unemployed workers change their career when starting a new job. Moreover, the proportion of total hires that involves a career change for the worker also drops in recessions....

A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...

Befristung als Form der Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung - Arbeitsmarkttheoretische Überlegungen zur befristeten Beschäftigung - Befristete Beschäftigung und der Einfluss institutioneller Rahmenbedingungen - Hypothesen - Daten, Variablen und Methoden - Verbreitungsgrad und Charakteristika...