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Das Beitragsbild zeigt eine Hand die den italienischen Pass in der Hand hält.

November 28, 2023 | International and Regional Labour Markets

Easy come, easy go: Return migration increases with tax incentives in the home country

For many years, Germany has been facing an increasing skills shortage in key occupations and has sought to attract a growing number of highly-skilled immigrants. In striving for this goal, Germany is ...read more

Das Bild zeigt die ELMI-Konferenz aus derZuschauerperspektive

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 brought together leading national and international ...read more

October 31, 2023 | International perspectives on applying short-time work during the Covid-19 crisis

“The first six months expenditure for the Australian JobKeeper scheme lifted total national government expenditure by one quarter”

Martin Schludi

Drei Männer und eine Frau sitzen nebeneinander in einem Wartezimmer und arbeiten an ihren Laptops.

October 25, 2023 | Wages and Employment

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 a considerable part of the gender earnings ...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 consequences of the eviction crisis to society and ...read more

Wooden stones on which symbols for male and female persons in business attire are depicted lie on a grey-blue surface. Arrows go back and forth between the stones, symbolising the movement of the individual persons.

August 14, 2023 | Structural Change and the Labour Market

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. This is not the case for ...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 work during the Covid-19 ...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 States focused primarily on two such programs: ...read more

June 5, 2023 | Interviews

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 the labour market. He elaborates on the ...read more