Geodata in labor market research: trends, potentials and perspectives

Artikel

This article shows the potentials of georeferenced data for labor market research. We review developments in the literature and highlight areas that can benefit from exploiting georeferenced data. Moreover, we share our experiences in geocoding administrative employment data including wage and socioeconomic information of almost the entire German workforce between 2000 and 2017. To make the data easily accessible for research, we create 1-square-kilometer grid cells aggregating a rich set of labor market characteristics and sociodemographics of unprecedented spatial precision. These unique data provide detailed insights into inner-city distributions for all German cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants. Accordingly, we provide an extensive series of maps in the Additional file 1 and describe Berlin and Munich in greater detail. The small-scale maps reveal substantial differences in various labor market aspects within and across cities.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Journal for Labour Market Research ; ISSN: 2510-5027 ; Volume: 56 ; Year: 2022 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 1-17 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
• Subject: Georeferenced data ; Labor economics ; Microdata ; Neighborhood effects ; Regional science ; Register-based data ; Segregation ; Spatial economics ; Urban economics

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Ostermann, Kerstin ; Eppelsheimer, Johann ; Gläser, Nina ; Haller, Peter ; Oertel, Martina
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Springer
• (where): Heidelberg
• (when): 2022

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1186/s12651-022-00310-x
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/262182
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET