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Opinion

October 10, 2022

“Some market interventions are efficient”

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

  • collective bargaining
  • employment
  • Germany
  • labor shortage
  • low-wage sector
  • minimum wage
  • Simon Jäger
Research

April 29, 2020

Short-term consequences of COVID-19 on labor market outcomes in the United States

Negative impacts especially for men, younger workers, immigrants, Hispanics and less-educated workers

  • COVID-19
  • employment
  • remote work
  • wages
  • Abel Brodeur
  • Louis-Philippe Béland
  • Taylor Wright
Research

February 21, 2019

How minimum wages affect employment and labor market participation

Analysis of short-run effects based on individual-level data

  • employment
  • full-time
  • labor market participation
  • minimum wage
  • part-time
  • unemployment
  • Ernest Boffy-Ramirez
Research

October 5, 2018

Does faster reintegration of the unemployed reduce job quality?

Two studies from Switzerland analyze the effects of job search requirements and assistance

  • active labor market policies
  • behavior
  • employment
  • Switzerland
  • unemployment
  • Amelie Schiprowski
  • Lionel Cottier
  • Patrick Arni
  • Pierre Kempeneers
  • Rafael Lalive
  • Yves Flückiger
Research

February 14, 2017

Does modern technology slow down employment growth after recessions?

In the last 25 to 30 years, recoveries from recessions in the US have been plagued by weak employment growth. […]

  • automation
  • employment
  • job growth
  • jobless
  • labor market
  • recession
  • recovery
  • United States
  • Georg Graetz
  • Guy Michaels
Research

December 8, 2016

How deporting all undocumented workers would hurt the U.S. economy

Immigration issues are at the top of many western countries’ political agendas. The EU is still processing all of the […]

  • Donald Trump
  • employment
  • illegal immigration
  • legalization
  • migration
  • U.S. economy
  • unauthorized workers
  • United States
  • Francesc Ortega
  • Ryan Edwards
Research

June 14, 2016

The effect of minimum wages on firm value

Ever since minimum wages were first introduced into labor markets, policy controversies have been fought out over the question of […]

  • employment
  • firm value
  • low-wage firms
  • minimum wage
  • National Living Wage
  • stock market
  • UK
  • wage cost
  • Brian Bell
  • Stephen Machin
Research

April 21, 2016

How to close the disability employment gap

Anti-discrimination legislation has been largely ineffective at improving the employment prospects of the disabled. A new report, just published by […]

  • disability
  • disadvantage
  • discrimination
  • employment
  • labor market
  • Melanie Jones
  • occupational health
  • Melanie Jones
Research

February 18, 2016

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 […]

  • employer reputation
  • employment
  • employment contracts
  • gig economy
  • micro-contracting
  • online labor market
  • payment conditions
  • Sojourner
  • worker recruitment
  • working conditions
  • Aaron J. Sojourner
  • Akhmed Umyarov
  • Alan Benson
Research

June 11, 2015

Why labor market policies should be guided by happiness

Happiness should be a guiding factor in the governance of labor markets, argues Jo Ritzen in his most recent IZA […]

  • employment
  • employment protection
  • happiness
  • labor market policy
  • permanent contracts
  • temporary contracts
  • unemployment
  • well-being
  • Artjom Ivlevs
  • Carol Graham
  • Jo Ritzen
  • Rainer Winkelmann
Opinion

May 1, 2015

International Workers’ Day Address: The Big Trade-Off in the World of Labor

On May Day 2015, which also marks the first anniversary of IZA World of Labor, IZA Director Klaus F. Zimmermann […]

  • automation
  • employment
  • evidence-based policy advice
  • future
  • robots
  • trends
  • workforce
  • workplace
  • world of labor
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann
Research

March 31, 2015

Robots at work: Boosting productivity without killing jobs?

What have industrial robots done for growth and employment? IZA affiliate Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels answer this question using […]

  • automated processes
  • employment
  • high-skilled workers
  • industrial
  • low-skilled workers
  • machine
  • price
  • productivity
  • replaceability
  • robots
  • Georg Graetz
  • Guy Michaels
Videos

March 11, 2015

David Neumark on the employment effects of minimum wages

In a video interview, IZA Fellow David Neumark (University of California, Irvine) talks about the employment effects of minimum wages […]

  • distribution
  • employment
  • hiring
  • job destruction
  • labor market
  • low-skilled
  • minimum wages
  • David Neumark
Research

March 10, 2015

The negative labor market outcomes of a Muslim minority: How policy can make a big difference

The labor market success of ethnic and religious minorities often lags behind the average population. Discrimination, segregation and cultural frictions […]

  • discrimination
  • education
  • employment
  • infrastructure
  • labor market outcomes
  • minority
  • Muslim
  • segregation
  • wages
  • Eran Yashiv
  • Nitsa Kasir
Research

February 20, 2015

Sports and exercise boost labor market performance and earnings

Many public policy campaigns aim at encouraging people to be more physically active. Sports and exercise enhance physical and mental […]

  • active labor market policy
  • earnings
  • employment
  • fitness
  • health
  • IZA World of Labor
  • soft skills
  • sports
  • Dan-Olof Rooth
  • Michael Lechner
Research

February 12, 2015

Immigrants and host countries benefit from liberalized access to citizenship

Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that many immigrants fail to integrate economically. Research shows that the option […]

  • citizenship
  • employment
  • Germany
  • immigration
  • IZA World of Labor
  • labor market
  • migration
  • naturalization
  • Christina Gathmann
Research

December 22, 2014

Active Labor Market Policy reduced crime in Denmark

The fact that it has been difficult to document a consistent positive effect of the often huge public spending on […]

  • activation
  • active labor market policies
  • employment
  • unemployed
  • welfare-policy
  • workfare
  • Lars Pico Geerdsen
  • Peter Fallesen
  • Susumu Imai
  • Torben Tranæs
Research

September 12, 2014

Chinese imports push low-skilled Norwegians into unemployment

China’s rise to global economic power has had a major impact on the recent globalization process. In 2009, China became […]

  • China
  • employment
  • export
  • globalization
  • import
  • industry
  • manufactoring
  • Norway
  • trade
  • unemployment
  • wage bargaining
  • Kjell G. Salvanes
  • Ragnhild Balsvik
  • Sissel Jensen
Research

September 8, 2014

Union threat: Where is it highest?

What kind of businesses do unions approach to organize workers? Much is known about what happens to a business after […]

  • business
  • employment
  • firm size
  • management
  • organization
  • union
  • USA
  • wage
  • worker
  • Emin Dinlersoz
  • Henry R. Hyatt
  • Jeremy Greenwood
Videos

August 26, 2014

Fixed-term contracts: Dead-end jobs or useful stepping stones? Video interview with Werner Eichhorst

Fixed-term contracts have become a major form of employment in Europe. While proponents regard them as an important stepping stone […]

  • dead-end jobs
  • employment
  • fixed-term contracts
  • job opportunities
  • stepping stones
  • unemployment
  • wage gap
  • Werner Eichhorst
Research

August 1, 2014

Hiring credits stimulated employment during recession in France

In response to soaring unemployment during the Great Recession, the French government introduced a hiring credit in December 2008. The […]

  • employment
  • France
  • hiring
  • labor market policy
  • minimum wage
  • natural experiment
  • recession
  • Pierre Cahuc
  • Stéphane Carcillo
  • Thomas Le Barbanchon
Research

June 27, 2014

What happens when employers are free to discriminate? Evidence from the English Fantasy Football Premier League

Research on employers’ hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Observational studies report lower wages for minority, […]

  • employment
  • England
  • football
  • game
  • hiring
  • race
  • racial discrimination
  • Alex Bryson
  • Arnaud Chevalier
Research

March 3, 2014

The predictive power of reservation wages: Workers tend to overestimate their prospects

Reservation wages represent the lowest wage for which an individual is willing to work. They are an important economic variable […]

  • employment
  • job acceptance
  • reservation wage
  • Alan B. Krueger
  • Andreas I. Mueller
Research

January 7, 2014

Making work more attractive: increase the VAT and reduce labor taxes

What is the right mix between direct taxes, such as personal income taxes or social security contributions, and indirect taxes […]

  • consumption
  • direct taxation
  • employment
  • Germany
  • income distribution
  • income taxation
  • indirect taxation
  • labor
  • microsimulation
  • redistribution
  • social security contributions
  • VAT
  • work incentives
  • Eric Sommer
  • Nico Pestel
Research

December 23, 2013

Overcoming the educational mismatch

Nobel laureate Chris Pissarides suggests that in times of recession it’s good for young people to acquire more education. Nonetheless, […]

  • anonymized job application
  • degrees
  • dual principle
  • education
  • employment
  • graduates
  • human capital
  • mismatch
  • non-employment
  • overeducation
  • overskilling
  • skills
  • Floro Ernesto Caroleo
  • Francesco Pastore
Research

December 20, 2013

Women are not scared of competing with males, field experiment shows

Despite increasing female labor market participation, gender differences in labor market outcomes persist: men earn more, have better employment perspectives […]

  • competition
  • employment
  • exam
  • field experiment
  • gender differences
  • student
  • university
  • women
  • Francesca Gioia
  • Maria De Paola
  • Vincenzo Scoppa
Research

December 16, 2013

After-school care allows parents to share work more equally

While more and more women with children work in OECD countries, less than a half of them have a full-time […]

  • after-school child care
  • career opportunities
  • employment
  • female labor supply
  • full-time position
  • parental working hours
  • school children
  • Christina Felfe
  • Michael Lechner
  • Petra Thiemann
Research

November 22, 2013

People who play sports do better on the job

Does playing sports or going to the gym help your career? In a new IZA discussion paper, Paul Downward and […]

  • employability
  • employment
  • health
  • income
  • labor market
  • sports
  • sports participation
  • team sports
  • Michael Lechner
  • Paul Downward
Research

November 8, 2013

Study abroad programs boost labor market careers

Despite the great popularity of international educational mobility schemes like the European Erasmus scholarship program, relatively little research has been […]

  • education
  • educational mobility
  • employment
  • Italy
  • job prospects
  • university
  • Giorgio Di Pietro
OpinionResearch

October 21, 2013

Welfare benefits are no magnet for migrants

EU commissioner Laszlo Andor has been under fire since he claimed last week that welfare tourism is “neither widespread nor […]

  • anti-immigration movement
  • demographic change
  • employment
  • Europe
  • European Union
  • Germany
  • immigration
  • migration
  • UK
  • welfare migration
  • worker mobility
  • Amelie F. Constant
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Martin Kahanec
Research

September 2, 2013

How effective is high school mentoring?

Is it worthwhile paying special attention to high school students from disadvantaged social backgrounds? Núria Rodríguez-Planas put this question to […]

  • college enrollment
  • drug use
  • education
  • employment
  • graduation rates
  • high school
  • learning
  • mentoring
  • risky behavior
  • Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Research

July 1, 2013

How being a victim of school bullying affects your labor market career

Do victims of bullying at school still suffer later in their working lives? A new IZA Discussion Paper by Nick […]

  • bullying
  • employment
  • labor market outcomes
  • mental health
  • productivity
  • school
  • wages
  • Nick Drydakis
Research

March 29, 2013

What happens to the careers of European workers when immigrants “take their jobs”?

A new IZA Discussion paper by Cristina Cattaneo, Carlo V. Fiorio and Giovanni Peri evaluates the effect of immigrants on […]

  • employment
  • Europe
  • immigration
  • labor market career
  • mobility
  • self-employment
  • Carlo V. Fiorio
  • Cristina Cattaneo
  • Giovanni Peri

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