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Eine Person schaut durch eine Lupe auf meherer Stapel Geldmünzen, auf jeden jweils eine Scherenschnitt-Person steht.

December 15, 2023 | International and Regional Labour Markets

Recent Developments in the Distribution of Labour Income and Skills

Contributing to a better understanding of wage determination and wage distribution as well as job skills – that was the aim of the international conference "Recent Developments in Wage Determination, ...read more

November 29, 2023 | Interviews

“Not recognizing climate change related mobility will not obliterate it, but likely lead to more clandestine mobility”

Jutta Winters

Professor Filiz Garip from Princeton University talks in this interview about climate change, migration, and ...read more

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

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 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

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

May 16, 2023 | International perspectives on applying short-time work during the Covid-19 crisis

“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 the Covid-19 pandemic. The traditional French short-time work ...read more

May 9, 2023 | International perspectives on applying short-time work during the Covid-19 crisis

“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 Professor of Economics at the ...read more

March 8, 2023 | International perspectives on applying short-time work during the Covid-19 crisis

“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 of Italy, a scheme widely used in former times of crisis ...read more