All articles for: working-conditions
August 18, 2026 | Digital and ecological transformation
"Climate change will demand significant adjustments of the German labour market”
Christiane Keitel
Prolonged heatwaves, severe storms, rising sea-levels in the North- and Baltic Seas, forest fires – these are arguably the most visible consequences of... Read more
January 15, 2026 | Labour Market Policy
Minimum wage and job reallocation: The hidden role of financial constraints
Ahmet Ali Taskin, Britta Gehrke
The introduction of Germany’s minimum wage in 2015 did not cause substantial changes to overall employment; rather, it triggered large shifts in the... Read more
February 1, 2024 | Erwerbsbeteiligung, Armut und Sozialpolitik
“Eroding trust in the state and in frontline workers can become a catalyst for the rise of populism”
Jutta Winters
Professor Gabriela Spanghero Lotta explores the dynamics of citizen-state interactions in Latin America, outlines the role of frontline workers in dealing with situations... 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
August 9, 2022 | Groups of Persons
Essential occupations: what are the working conditions like?
Anton Nivorozhkin, Friedrich Poeschel
Most jobs in essential occupations in Germany have relatively good working conditions. Yet a substantial share of jobs has bad ones, and here... Read more
June 4, 2018 | Labour Market, Employment and Social Policy
Binding collective agreements: The downward trend continues
Susanne Kohaut
Wages and working conditions are negotiated between employers and employees. Collective agreements provide both parties with an institutional framework to that end. But... Read more