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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

Opinion

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

SPIEGEL Online interview with Simon Jäger

Research

Does immigration undermine social cohesion in the receiving country?

New study shows that one million refugees did not change how Germans view their society

Research

Immigration or automation?

Low-skill immigration to Denmark slowed robot adoption

Research

Skilled immigration spurs innovation

Study from France shows that specialization and reorganization within firms drive increase in patenting activity

Research

How firms adjust when they cannot hire foreigners for low-skill work

New study uses randomized work-visa restrictions to study the effect of low-skill immigration in the U.S.

Opinion

“Some market interventions are efficient”

FAZ interview with Simon Jäger on the minimum wage and labor market policy in Germany

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Job matching in online markets

IDSC workshop brought together economists and computer scientists from academia and practice

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Four IZA network members among the Citation Laureates for 2022

Pioneering contributions to happiness economics and political economy

Opinion

Babel’s Curse or Babel’s Blessing?

Studying in a foreign language may come at a cost

Research

“We need to talk about Mechanical Turk”

What 22,989 hypothesis tests tell us about publication bias and p-hacking in online experiments

Research

Who is more productive from home?

New survey evidence shows that personality traits matter (a lot)

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Measurement of incomes, living costs and standards of living

5th IZA Workshop on Labor Statistics discusses latest findings

Research

Children benefit from longer parental leave

Study from Denmark shows positive effects on socio-emotional skills and well-being

Research

Cutting disability insurance benefits may come at a cost

Reform in Hungary led to decrease in tax revenues as beneficiaries lowered their labor supply

Research

Increased wage transparency in job postings has no effect on gender pay gap

Study from Austria finds that pay transparency law did not make women more likely to switch to better-paid jobs

Research

Minimum wage increases lead to substantial declines in vacancy postings

Largest effect in at-risk occupations

Research

Minimum wage contributed to rise in solo self-employment

Study exploits Germany’s introduction of industry-level minimum wages to investigate the causal impact

Research

Employer market power in Silicon Valley

Study reveals that no-poach agreements among tech giants cost employees billions

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MIT economist Simon Jäger to become CEO of IZA in September

Hilmar Schneider will leave the institute after six successful years

Research

How attractive is telework?

Survey experiment shows that employees are willing to accept smaller wage increases for more autonomy

Research

How COVID-19 affects educational choices in high school

Students in Sweden moved away quickly from service-oriented vocational programs

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Cooperation of BIBB and IZA facilitates research data access

Researchers can now work with BIBB data from anywhere via secure remote computing

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