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How exposure to artificial intelligence affects worker well-being

New study finds lower job and life satisfaction but no evidence of adverse mental health effects

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Tax flight by the super-rich: Does it really happen?

New study from the UK on the impact of capital tax reforms on migration behavior

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The long shadow of China’s one-child policy

New research on fertility among Chinese immigrants to the US suggests small-family cultural norms are hard to overcome

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What we teach children about race and gender

New study uses AI tools to analyze representation in images and text of children's books

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Democrats do not benefit electorally from popular minimum wage increases

New study suggests voters pay little attention to indirect transfers

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Worker pay rose in U.S. chains that abandoned no-poaching clauses

New study points to the importance of antitrust policy and enforcement for worker welfare

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Woke jobs after Dobbs?

How public support for female employees both helped and hurt some employers after Roe v. Wade was overturned

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What we associate with first names and how it helps explain discrimination

Employers overestimate Black-White gap in productivity and discriminate, especially when making fast hiring decisions

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What does job applicants’ body art signal to employers?

New study directly measures the stigma surrounding job candidates with tattoos and piercings using real recruiters

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IZA 25th anniversary event in Berlin

Successful international research conference and policy panel on the German labor market

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What drives high self-employment in poor countries?

New study highlights links to the attractiveness of wage employment, shocks to jobs, and job finding rates

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Why upward mobility from poverty is particularly low in the United States

New study compares the mechanisms through which poverty persistence is channeled in high-income countries

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How wildfires affect labor income

U.S. study shows that drifting wildfire smoke reduces earnings thousands of miles away

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Did the minimum wage in Germany improve allocative efficiency?

New study finds that aggregate productivity gains resulted entirely from within-firm productivity improvements

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Does winning an ERC grant improve scientific productivity in the long run?

New study finds overall limited impact, with positive outcomes only for top-ranked winners in specific fields

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Smart, simple, and fair: New proposal for immigration to Germany

IZA researcher team suggests creating a double dividend by linking labor immigration to collective bargaining

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Generous unconditional cash transfers may reduce short-term labor force participation

Study from Barcelona finds negative employment effects, particularly among households with care responsibilities

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How Covid changed women’s risk aversion

Natural experiment from urban Burkina Faso reveals permanent instability of preferences

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Better housing leads to better health

New study reveals significant cost savings through reduced hospital admissions

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Can more education save the planet?

New study finds sizable causal effects of years of schooling on pro-climate outcomes

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IZA promotes innovative economic research on climate change

Two papers selected for the 2023 IRECC Awards

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How immigration affects housing costs

Study from Switzerland shows that free movement agreement with EU substantially raised prices of owner-occupied housing

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G²LM|LIC Call for Proposals

Large- and small-scale research grants are offered on issues related to gender, labor and growth in LICs

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Do digital technologies complement or substitute employee training?

New study finds that investment in training per employee is reduced with the adoption of modern technologies

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“Higher wages or better working conditions can resolve labor shortages”

SPIEGEL Online interview with Simon Jäger

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