Reallocation patterns across occupations in Germany

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." (Author's abstract, © 2016 Elsevier) ((en))

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Bauer, A. (2016): Reallocation patterns across occupations in Germany. In: Economics Letters, Vol. 148, No. November, p. 111-114. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2016.09.008