Abstract

Labour market flows are essential for the development of employment and unemployment. In this project I deal with flows on the German labour market from a macro-economic perspective. I use different data-sources of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) to calculate worker flows and job flows as well as inflows and outflows of unemployment. Than I analyse the cyclical behaviour of job turnover and labour turnover in West Germany. One aim is to find out which economic sectors create new jobs in a boom and how firms react in a recession.