TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Fahr, René
AU  - Sunde, Uwe
        TI  - Regional Dependencies in Job Creation: An Efficiency Analysis for Western Germany
        PY  - 2005/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1660
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1660
        AB  - This paper investigates the efficiency of the matching process between job seekers and vacancy posting firms in West-Germany, using variation across labor market regions and across time. The results of a stochastic frontier analysis shed new light on extent and regional differences of search frictions, on potential determinants of frictional inefficiencies and on the consequences of German reunification for the matching process. The paper also presents novel evidence on the complex interactions between spatial contingencies among regional labor markets: matching efficiency decreases with spatial autocorrelation in hiring, implying indirect evidence for crowding externalities.
        KW  - spatial autocorrelation
KW  - regional unemployment
KW  - stochastic frontier
KW  - matching function
        ER  -