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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

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

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

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

Junge Frau arbeitet in einem Büro am Laptop. Auf der Pinnwand dahinter ist eine ukrainische Flagge befestigt.

December 1, 2022 | Series "The Effects of the Ukraine War on the German 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 this context, also the issue of which ...read more

Eine männliche und eine weibliche Statue stehen jeweils auf einem Stapel an Münzen. Der Stapel des Mannes ist doppelt so hoch. Im Hintergrund ist eine digitale Weltkarte zu sehen.

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 than women: 40 percent of men work in occupations with a high ...read more

September 15, 2022 | Series "Tracking youth joblessness during the Covid-19 crisis"

Unemployment and the mental health of young people during the second phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany

Hans Dietrich, Alexander Patzina, Laura Brunner

Young adults are tomorrow’s workforce in times of aggravating skill shortage. Their mental health and well-being decide over their labour market success and influence the future development of the ...read more

Ein Mann mit schwarzer Hautfarbe steht hinter einer Fleischtheke im Supermarkt als Verkäufer.

August 9, 2022 | Series "Covid-19 crisis: consequences for the labour market"

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 migrants are ...read more

July 15, 2022 | Series "The Effects of the Ukraine War on the German Labour Market"

Labour market integration in Germany: refugee women take significantly longer than men

Yuliya Kosyakova, Lidwina Gundacker, Zerrin Salikutluk, Parvati Trübswetter

Refugee women take for multiple reasons longer to be integrated into the German labour market than ...read more