Affiliation: | 1. Office of Urban Research and Statistics for Nuremberg and Fuerth, Germany;2. Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany;3. University of Bielefeld, Germany We are thankful for useful comments and advice to Ronald Bachmann, Herbert Dawid, Roberto Fernandez, Alexander Kubis, Christian Merkl, Michael Neugart, and conference participants at the annual meetings of the American Economic Association in Philadelphia, the European Association of Labour Economists in St. Gallen, the European Economic Association in Cologne, the German Economic Association in Vienna, the annual Search and Matching conference in Barcelona, the IAB conference on “Vacancies, Hiring and Matching” as well as seminar participants at the University of Bielefeld, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF) in Bielefeld, Technical University of Darmstadt, the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, and the RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic 4. Research. |