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Should firms fill vacancies with own workers or outside hires?

Recruitment is one of the most important decisions businesses face. To ensure productivity and profitability remains high it is crucial […]

New forms of work and shady employers: How reputation can discipline the “gig economy”

Uber, Airbnb, TaskRabbit, and other online platforms have drastically reduced the price of micro-contracting and grown a “gig” economy, where […]

Investing in early childhood development reduces inequality

Early childhood years are highly formative and often provide the basis for educational, professional and social achievements in adulthood. IZA […]

Why UK income inequality has grown faster than you may think

Income inequality levels and trends are increasingly a subject of public discussion and have been analyzed in depth by economists […]

Why the unemployed need human coaches right from the start

 Electronic self-service platforms can help job-seekers find suitable vacancies and facilitate self-development. But the results of a recent research project […]

Employee incentives: Bonuses or penalties?

A large empirical literature supports the view that linking payment to performance is highly effective in raising productivity. However, often […]

Labor market policy: Parts of the picture are missing

By Patrick Arni, Gerard van den Berg, and Rafael Lalive The standard empirical evaluations of labor market policy only consider […]

Employers will check you out! Facebook profile pictures affect hiring chances

What many have already suspected has now been scientifically proven: Employers are screening job candidates through Facebook. In fact, your […]

Award-winning paper on the costs of environmental policy

The study by Reed Walker (UC Berkeley) on “The Transitional Costs of Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence from the Clean Air Act […]

Subsidized high-quality early care improves child development especially among children in low-income families

Human development starts early, and neuroscientists point to the first three years of brain development as especially consequential. Foundations for […]

Racial mismatch in the classroom leads to more unexcused student absences and school suspensions

Policymakers and educators alike are increasingly cognizant of the long-term consequences of student absenteeism and suspensions, which are particularly troubling […]

Life satisfaction gap between transition countries and the West is closing

Trends of globalization such as migration, economic integration and digital communication are undoubtedly bringing people closer together. But do they […]

Labor supply effects of winning a lottery

Economic theory provides ambiguous predictions about the effect of wage increases on the allocation of time between leisure and work. […]

Happy birthday, you’re fired! Effects of the age-dependent minimum wage in the Netherlands

The effects of the minimum wage on youth employment flows are at the focal point of the current policy debate […]

How internet search analysis can help prevent traffic jams

Traffic congestion keeps rising. In 2014, the German Automobile Club (ADAC) recorded 475,000 traffic jams on German highways, totaling 960,000 […]

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