Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/27181 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeitrag No. 371
Publisher: 
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Hannover
Abstract: 
This paper analyses cyclical effects on job-to-job mobility using German data. The focus lies on the influence of the regional unemployment rate and the regional growth of the GDP. Job-to- job transitions are fragmented into external and internal movements. The innovation is to describe mobility using background information why the moves occur because the available empirical labour market literature is in deficit with analyzing the motive why these transitions occur with respect to the business cycle. External movements can be introduced by quits or forced by layoffs, the end of the contract, or other reasons such as bankruptcy of a firm. Internal transitions are classified as promotions and transfers. Our estimates show that job-to-job mobility is strongly affected by the business cycle. External movements are more likely in times of growing GDP and less probable when the unemployment rate increases. For internal transitions our results suggest that Eastern and Western Germany’s workers differ in their mobility properties along the business cycle.
Subjects: 
job-to-job mobility
internal and external moves
promotions
quits
lay-offs
business cycle
JEL: 
E32
J62
J63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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