Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20847 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined between 1974 and 1994. Using count data regression models in which we control for labour market experience, various demographic factors, and occupation, we find that job stability did not decrease, but if anything increase, between 1974 and 1994. Our findings suggest that labour market inflexibility is an important factor in explaining the European unemployment problem.
Subjects: 
job mobility
labour market flexibility
count data models
JEL: 
J6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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