Employment trajectories in Germany: do firm characteristics and regional disparities matter?

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 1 Status after leaving employment

	1999		2002		p value^a
	%^b	n	%^b	n	p value^a
Exit from job^c	9.16	33,949	8.34	30,286	0.371
Exit states					0.000
Interfirm upward mobility	20.04	6,803	13.73	4,159
Interfirm lateral mobility	15.05	5,111	14.07	4,262
Interfirm downward mobility	9.88	3,355	9.61	2,911
Unemployment	25.98	8,820	29.88	9,049
Employment gap	29.04	9,860	32.70	9,905

^at-tests and chi-square tests were performed to explore the differences between the two years
^bPercentages do not add up to exactly 100 due to imprecise rounding
^cThe total number of observations was 370,779 in 1999 and 363,339 in 2002
Source: Linked Employer-Employee Data (LIAB); own calculations