All articles published so far
November 28, 2023 | International and Regional Labour Markets
Easy come, easy go: Return migration increases with tax incentives in the home country
Jacopo Bassetto, Guiseppe Ippedico
For many years, Germany has been facing an increasing skills shortage in key occupations and has sought to attract a growing number of... Read more
November 27, 2023 | International and Regional Labour Markets
ELMI conference: Navigating Digital, Green and Social Transitions in European Labour Markets
Jutta Winters
The Network of European Labour Market Research Institutes (ELMI) held its first conference in Luxembourg on 30 and 31 October 2023. The event... Read more
October 31, 2023 | Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic
“The first six months expenditure for the Australian JobKeeper scheme lifted total national government expenditure by one quarter”
Martin Schludi
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October 25, 2023 | Social Inequality, Joblessness and Social Inclusion
How men and women differ when searching for a job: application behaviour can explain half of the residual earnings gap
Benjamin Lochner, Christian Merkl
On average, women earn less than men. So far, gender-specific application behaviour has received little attention in this context. It can, however, explain... Read more
August 30, 2023 | Interviews
“Eviction creates Poverty”
Christine Vigeant
In an interview Matthew Desmond, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, gives insights into the situation of renters in the US, shows the... Read more
August 14, 2023 | Research Data and Methods
The IAB-LinkedIn Reallocation Radar: “Great Resignation” is not a trend
Enzo Weber, Murat Erer
The Great Resignation debate suggests that during the coronavirus crisis, workers would have increasingly switched the industry in which they were previously employed.... Read more
July 17, 2023 | International perspectives on applying short-time work during the Covid-19 crisis
“At the peak of the Covid-19 crisis, short-time work covered one in five jobs across the OECD – ten times more than at the height of the global financial crisis”
Jutta Winters
Alexander Hijzen, a senior economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), gives an overview of the country-specific application of short-time... Read more
June 27, 2023 | International perspectives on applying short-time work during the Covid-19 crisis
“Short-Time Compensation is underutilized in the United States”
Jutta Winters
During the Covid-19 pandemic, governments around the world responded with a variety of labor market policy tools to prevent job losses. The United... Read more
June 5, 2023 | International Labour Markets
Alan Manning: "It is important to have institutions such as the minimum wage to adress the market power of employers"
Jutta Winters
Professor Alan Manning, one of the world's most renowned labour market economists, explains in this video-statement the basic idea of imperfect competition in... Read more