Does Labour Mobility Reduce Disparities between Regional Labour Markets in Germany?

Persistent Disparities in Regional Unemployment: Application of a Spatial Filtering Approach to Local Labour Markets in Germany

The geographical distribution and persistence of regional/local unemployment rates in heterogeneous economies (such as Germany) have been, in recent years, the subject of various theoretical and empirical studies. Several researchers have shown an interest in analysing the dynamic adjustment processes of unemployment and the average degree of dependence of the current unemployment rates or gros...

Job mobility and segmentation in Australian city labour markets

The links between labour markets and housing markets in Melbourne

Vacancy Duration on Regional Labour Markets in the Netherlands

The focus of this paper is on the functioning of regional labour markets from a demandside perspective. In this respect, vacancy duration is the natural measure of the tightness of the (regional) labour market. The determinants of vacancy duration are studied in the context of a new theoretical model of employer's search behaviour. The model is empirically applied for the Netherlands by specify...

Labour mobility and employee bargaining power in healthcare – Regional overview

In Hungary, the wages of government workers were frozen and in some cases reduced between 2008 and 2012. Within this very diverse set of employees, resident physicians were the only group capable of taking successful collective action and achieving wage increases that were extended to the entire health-care sector. However, the 2011 mass resignation campaign organized by the Hungarian Associati...