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May 16, 2023 | Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic
“At the peak, 40 percent of the French labour force were on short-time work”
Martin Schludi
In France, just like in many other European countries, short-time work has proved to be a powerful tool to prevent massive layoffs during... Read more
May 9, 2023 | Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic
“Over one million temporary workers lost their jobs at the beginning of the pandemic, as companies preferred not to include them in short-time work schemes”
Jutta Winters
Spain used a short-time work scheme called “Expediente Temporal de Regulación de Empleo” during the Covid-19 crisis. In this interview, Marcel Jansen, Associate... Read more
April 11, 2023 | Interviews
ELMI: “Exchange often brings about entirely different ideas and projects one has not thought about before”
Jutta Winters
In the autumn of 2022, eleven European institutes for labour research established the “Network of European Labour Market Research Institutes” (ELMI). In this... Read more
March 8, 2023 | Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic
“Extended coverage and benefit duration boosted the role of short-time work in Italy during the Covid-19 crisis”
Jutta Winters
In many European countries, short-time work proved to be a strong measure to combat massive layoffs during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the case... Read more
March 2, 2023 | Interviews
“Refugees from Ukraine face considerable uncertainty about their future”
Christiane Keitel, Jutta Winters
More than one million people have fled Ukraine to find refuge in Germany. But how are they doing in the meantime? Between August... Read more
February 28, 2023 | Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic
“Short-time work proved to be a highly effective instrument in times of crisis.”
Martin Schludi
In Germany, short-time work has played a crucial role in stabilising the labour market both in the financial and the coronavirus crisis. At... Read more
December 1, 2022 | Education and the Labour Market
Vocational training in Ukraine – an overview
Franziska Schreyer, Silke Anger, Tim-Felix Grabert, Olena Martyniuk
The longer Ukrainian refugees stay in their receiving countries, the more urgent questions about their integration into the local labour markets become. In... Read more
November 22, 2022 | Digital and ecological transformation
Double-edged sword: How does digitalisation impact on gender inequality in the labour market?
Carola Burkert, Katharina Grienberger, Britta Matthes
More and more tasks can be automated with the help of modern technologies. Up to now, men in Germany are potentially more affected... Read more
October 28, 2022 | Digital and ecological transformation
TASKS VI conference on the digital and ecological transformation of the labour market
Melanie Arntz, Kathrin Ehmann, Florian Lehmer
The labour market undergoes fundamental technological and ecological changes – all this on top of the Covid-19 crisis. Researchers from all over the... Read more