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December 19, 2018

What hides behind the German labor market miracle?

Decrease in separation rates explains much of the decline in unemployment after the Hartz reforms

  • Germany
  • Hartz reforms
  • labor market reforms
  • unemployment
  • unemployment insurance
  • Benjamin Hartung
  • Moritz Kuhn
  • Philip Jung
Research

September 21, 2018

Parental leave benefits do not widen the socio-economic gap in child development

Analysis of school entrance exams in Germany

  • child development
  • Germany
  • parental leave
  • single motherhood
  • socio-economic inequality
  • C. Katharina Spieß
  • Daniel Kühnle
  • Kamila Cygan-Rehm
  • Mathias Hübener
  • Regina Riphahn
Research

September 17, 2018

School reforms and socioeconomic inequality in Germany

15 years after the PISA shock

  • achievement
  • education
  • education policy
  • Germany
  • inequality
  • migration background
  • PISA
  • reforms
  • school
  • Horst Entorf
  • Maddalena Davoli
Research

July 10, 2018

How the Chernobyl cloud affected cognitive abilities in Germany

Even low doses of radiation can have significant human capital costs.

  • chernobyl
  • cognitive skills
  • contamination
  • environment
  • Germany
  • health
  • human capital
  • nuclear energy
  • nuclear power
  • radiation
  • Benjamin Elsner
  • Florian Wozny
Research

December 20, 2017

State-funded mobility assistance helps the unemployed

Given that employment prospects vary substantially across regions in many industrialized countries.

  • active labor market policies
  • commuting
  • Germany
  • job search
  • labor mobility
  • relocation
  • unemployment
  • Marco Caliendo
  • Robert Mahlstedt
  • Steffen Künn
Research

December 1, 2017

Do boys benefit from male teachers in elementary school?

The scarcity of male teachers in schools has led to a debate on whether young boys require more male role models.

  • boys
  • discrimination
  • early tracking
  • education
  • elementary school
  • gender
  • Germany
  • school
  • teachers
  • Patrick A. Puhani
Research

August 16, 2017

Educational choices can help explain income inequality in Germany

Rising levels of income inequality in many developed countries have led to much political and scientific controversy. One of the […]

  • education
  • Germany
  • high-skilled
  • income distribution
  • income inequality
  • labor market
  • labor supply
  • skill premiums
  • skills
  • vocational training
  • wages
  • Albrecht Glitz
  • Daniel Wissmann
Research

January 23, 2017

Globalization’s stabilizing effect on manufacturing jobs in Germany

Recently, there has been strong interest in the decline of manufacturing in the United States. Although the share in real […]

  • export
  • Germany
  • globalization
  • import
  • manufacturing
  • services
  • trade
  • unemployment
  • Jens Suedekum
  • Sebastian Findeisen
  • Wolfgang Dauth
Research

November 30, 2016

Generosity of unemployment benefits affects job search effort

Unemployment insurance (UI) schemes face a dual challenge: By partly replacing forgone labor income, they should enable unemployed individuals to […]

  • German Federal Employment Agency
  • Germany
  • reservation wage
  • search effort
  • unemployed
  • unemployment
  • unemployment benefits
  • unemployment insurance
  • unemployment rate
  • Andreas Lichter
Opinion

July 25, 2016

On the costs and benefits of international labor mobility: Interview with George Borjas

The drastic and unexpected increase in the number of people seeking asylum in Germany in 2015 has overshadowed the long […]

  • Germany
  • immigration policy
  • labor market
  • migration
  • refugee crisis
  • George Borjas
Opinion

July 7, 2016

What politicos get wrong in Germany’s retirement debate

A crucial reality check for all Germany’s politicians eager to hand out even more retirement benefits: They need to ensure […]

  • demography
  • generations
  • Germany
  • inequality
  • pay-as-you-go
  • pensions
  • retirement
  • social security
  • Werner Eichhorst
Opinion

May 2, 2016

The right mix of migrants to meet Germany’s needs

“In past decades, Germany has made great strides with the integration of foreigners. Those achievements must be defended prudently and […]

  • Germany
  • immigration
  • integration
  • labor market
  • refugee crisis
Research

October 7, 2015

ADHD diagnoses depend on relative age

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common diagnoses of behavioral problems among school-aged children. ADHD diagnoses […]

  • ADHS
  • attention deficit
  • classroom
  • diagnosis
  • Germany
  • medication
  • school starting age
  • Amelie Wuppermann
  • Hannes Schwandt
Research

October 3, 2015

On occasion of German Reunification Day: New Article on “Children of the Wall”

Today marks the 25th anniversary of German reunification. The signing of the German unification treaty had set in stone what […]

  • Children of the Wall
  • demography
  • East Germany
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall
  • fertility
  • German reunification
  • Germany
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • labor market
  • labor market policy
  • life satisfaction
  • Anke Zimmermann
  • Arnaud Chevalier
  • Axel Heitmueller
  • Christian Merkl
  • Christian Pfeifer
  • Dennis J. Snower
  • Holger Bonin
  • Inna Petrunyk
  • John P. Haisken-DeNew
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Kostas G. Mavromaras
  • Michael A. Shields
  • Olivier Marie
  • Paul Frijters
  • Richard A. Easterlin
Research

April 17, 2015

Air pollution impairs productivity of professional soccer players

Air pollution is the top environmental risk factor of premature death. Annual costs of environmental damage for the European countries […]

  • age
  • air pollution
  • Bundesliga
  • economic growth
  • environment
  • environmental policy
  • Germany
  • labor productivity
  • match
  • passes
  • physical burden
  • pollution
  • population health
  • professional soccer players
  • Andreas Lichter
  • Eric Sommer
  • Nico Pestel
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 10, 2014

More women in leadership positions don’t make firms more successful

Many European countries are contemplating (or have already introduced) mandatory quotas for the share of women on the executive level […]

  • diversity
  • female
  • Germany
  • leadership
  • mandatory
  • quota
  • women
  • M. Daniele Paserman
  • Nina Smith
  • Stefano Gagliarducci
Research

November 26, 2014

European unemployment insurance faces dilemma

More substantial fiscal integration in Europe by way of a common unemployment insurance scheme for eurozone member states? This question […]

  • benefits
  • Europe
  • Eurozone
  • fiscal integration
  • Germany
  • joint unemployment insurance
  • net contributors
  • transfer union
  • Andreas Peichl
  • Clemens Fuest
  • Dirk Neumann
  • Mathias Dolls
Research

November 17, 2014

Mobilizing employment potentials of the service sector in manufacturing-heavy economies

Modernizing developed economies in order to remain competitive in global markets is a pressing issue when manufacturing jobs can be […]

  • employment growth
  • Germany
  • job polarization
  • Korea
  • labor market flexibility
  • low pay
  • manufacturing
  • sectoral clustering
  • service sector
  • skill formation
  • Werner Eichhorst
Research

June 6, 2014

What determines racist attitudes in Germany

Although the end of World War II is not even seventy years ago, one out of five Germans thinks that […]

  • discrimination
  • economic perspective
  • education
  • Germany
  • prejudice
  • racism
  • Christian Raschke
  • Naci Mocan
Research

June 2, 2014

Low-emission-zones reduce fine dust pollution in German cities

Low-emission-zones (LEZ) is Europe’s most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: only vehicles that emit low levels of air pollutants are […]

  • air
  • car
  • emission
  • enviroment
  • Germany
  • pollution
  • Hendrik Wolff
Research

May 23, 2014

Job information centers improve students’ career choice

In many countries high school students visit job information centers before they graduate. They learn about job prospects, earnings and […]

  • education
  • educational mobility
  • Germany
  • job information
  • labor market entry
  • school
  • Nils Saniter
  • Thomas Siedler
Research

May 16, 2014

Becoming a German citizen pays for female immigrants

Today there are ten million immigrants living in Germany, accounting for 13 percent of the whole population. At the same […]

  • citizenship
  • Germany
  • immigration
  • integration
  • labor market
  • migration
  • Christina Gathmann
  • Nicolas Keller
Videos

April 24, 2014

IZA interview: Pierre Cahuc on youth unemployment in Europe

In the latest IZA interview, Pierre Cahuc, IZA Program Director for “Labor Markets and Institutions”, talks about youth unemployment in […]

  • active labor market policy
  • Europe
  • France
  • Germany
  • labor costs
  • training
  • Youth Guarantee
  • youth unemployment
  • Pierre Cahuc
Research

February 24, 2014

Ethnic segregation: boon or bane for cultural integration?

Immigrants are not evenly distributed within countries: they tend to agglomerate in mainly urban areas. In the public eye – […]

  • agglomeration
  • clustering
  • ethnic identity
  • ethnic segregation
  • Germany
  • guestworkers
  • immigration
  • integration
  • parallel societies
  • social cohesion
  • Amelie F. Constant
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Simone Schüller
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
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

October 11, 2013

Firms do not benefit from active labor market policies

Do firms benefit from active labor market policies? In order to answer this question, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch and Patrycja […]

  • active labor market policies
  • firm performance
  • Germany
  • local employment agencies
  • subsidized employment
  • training programs
  • Conny Wunsch
  • Michael Lechner
  • Patrycja Scioch
Research

July 29, 2013

How globalization prevents wage increases

It is widely believed that certain types of workers suffer from globalization since firms’ international engagement might lead to lower […]

  • export
  • Germany
  • globalization
  • job insecurity
  • labor demand
  • low-skilled workers
  • wage gap
  • Andreas Lichter
  • Andreas Peichl
  • Sebastian Siegloch
Research

July 8, 2013

Why start-up subsidies even help in labor market slumps

Subsidizing unemployed workers to start their own business has been proven an effective policy tool to improve long-term employment and […]

  • active labor market policy
  • Germany
  • labor market conditions
  • self-employment
  • start-up subsidies
  • unemployment
  • Marco Caliendo
  • Steffen Künn
Research

May 27, 2013

Workers bear most of the corporate tax burden

Do higher corporate taxes reduce wages? While this question has heavily been discussed in economics since the 1960s, compelling empirical […]

  • corporate taxation
  • Germany
  • Gewerbesteuer
  • incidence
  • local taxation
  • public poliy
  • wage bargaining
  • Andreas Peichl
  • Clemens Fuest
  • Sebastian Siegloch
Videos

April 16, 2013

Former IZA Research Director and IZA Research Fellow Daniel S. Hamermesh talks about topical economic issues in the latest IZA […]

  • austerity
  • debt crisis
  • discrimination
  • Europe
  • Eurozone
  • federal budget
  • Germany
  • minimum wage
  • sequestration
  • Daniel S. Hamermesh
Research

March 14, 2013

Ten years of “Agenda 2010”

A decade ago the German labor market was regarded as a sick patient. Today it is performing exceptionally well and […]

  • active labor market policy
  • Agenda 2010
  • atypical employment
  • crisis
  • Germany
  • IZA
  • labor market reform
  • labor policy
  • long-term unemployment
  • short-time work
  • start-ups
  • training
  • Andrea Kuhn
  • Andreas Peichl
  • Annette Bergemann
  • Arne Uhlendorff
  • Birgit Jesske
  • Eric Thode
  • Frank Wießner
  • Gerard J. van den Berg
  • Hilmar Schneider
  • Holger Bonin
  • Jacob Steinwede
  • Jochen Kluve
  • Karl Brenke
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Lena Jacobi
  • Lutz C. Kaiser
  • Marc Schneider
  • Marco Caliendo
  • Nico Pestel
  • Paul Marx
  • René Fahr
  • Rosemarie Zenker
  • Sebastian Siegloch
  • Steffen Künn
  • Tina Hinz
  • Ulf Rinne
  • Uwe Sunde
  • Verena Tobsch
  • Werner Eichhorst
  • Zhong Zhao
Research

March 12, 2013

Germany, the North Star of labor policy

Germany has not only successfully managed to escape the unemployment trap it was caught in for a couple of decades, […]

  • austerity
  • crisis
  • Germany
  • labor market institutions
  • labor policy
  • long-term unemployment
  • short-time work
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Ulf Rinne

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