Neighborhood Effects and Individual Unemployment

Thomas Bauer (), Michael Fertig and Matthias Vorell ()

No 409, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Abstract: Using a unique dataset for Germany that links individual longitudinal data from the SOEP to regional data from the federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual employment propects. The panel setup and richness of the data allows us to overcome some of the identification problems which are present in this strand of literature. The empirical results indicate that there is a significant negative impact of neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability.

Keywords: Social interactions; unemployment; neighborhood characteristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 p.
Date: 2011
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