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- Title
Occupational and Locational Substitution: Measuring the Effect of Occupational and Regional Mobility.
- Authors
Aldashev, Alisher
- Abstract
The paper analyses the effects of occupational and regional mobility on the matching rate using monthly panel data disaggregated at the regional and occupational level. The main contribution of the paper is to measure the effect of substitutability between vacancies in different occupations, and vacancies in different regions on the matching rate. The estimates indicate higher regional mobility in West Germany but higher occupational mobility in East Germany. The results show that if occupations were perfect substitutes, then the number of matches could increase by 5-9 per cent. Perfect regional mobility would increase matchings by 5-15 per cent. It is also shown that partial aggregation causes a downward bias in substitutability estimates.
- Subjects
GERMANY (West); GERMANY (East); OCCUPATIONAL mobility; JOB vacancies; PANEL analysis
- Publication
LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics & Industrial Relations, 2012, Vol 26, Issue 1, p108
- ISSN
1121-7081
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9914.2011.00542.x