Reallocation patterns across occupations in Germany

Anja Bauer

Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 148, issue C, 111-114

Abstract: Using high-quality German administrative data, I analyze workers’ opportunity costs of reallocation across occupations by measuring the additional time spent in unemployment before being hired in a new occupation. Furthermore, I inspect the wage changes after reallocation and find that workers who change occupations through unemployment face wage losses that appear to be persistent over a 5-year horizon.

Keywords: Reallocation; Occupations; Mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J62 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.09.008

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