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April 23, 2020

Helping job seekers online

COVID-19 increases joblessness but also prevents the provision of face-to-face employment assistance

  • Australia
  • COVID-19
  • field experiment
  • job search
  • labor market policy
  • online services
  • unemployment
  • Giulio Zanella
  • Guglielmo Briscese
  • Veronica Quinn
Research

April 12, 2018

Is dependency on disability insurance benefits transmitted from parents to children?

Disability benefits provide an essential safety net for many people of working age whose health prevents them from engaging in […]

  • benefit recipiency
  • children
  • disability insurance
  • family
  • insurance
  • intergenerational
  • labor market policy
  • Netherlands
  • parents
  • social assistance
  • social policy
  • Anne C. Gielen
  • Gordon B. Dahl
OpinionResearch

March 17, 2017

The gender pay gap: Discrimination or structural differences?

Diskriminierung oder strukturelle Unterschiede?

  • competitiveness
  • equal pay
  • female leadership
  • gender
  • gender differences
  • gender gap
  • gender inequality
  • gender pay gap
  • gender wage gap
  • labor market
  • labor market policy
  • leadership
  • wages
  • women
  • Boris Hirsch
  • Mario Lackner
  • Mario Macis
  • Solomon W. Polachek
Research

December 6, 2016

“Jobs for Development”: How job creation can drive progress and what policies can support this process

Job creation is at the heart of development. This was the central message of the World Bank’s “World Development Report […]

  • demography
  • Development
  • good jobs
  • institutions
  • jobs
  • labor market policy
  • natural endowments
  • unemployment
  • Gordon Betcherman
  • Martin Rama
Research

January 20, 2016

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 […]

  • carrots
  • caseworkers
  • evaluation
  • job seekers
  • labor market policy
  • program participants
  • public employment service
  • regime
  • sticks
  • treatment effect
  • unemployment insurance
  • Andrea Weber
  • David Card
  • Gerard J. van den Berg
  • Jochen Kluve
  • Patrick Arni
  • Rafael Lalive
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

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
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 23, 2014

Encouraging single mothers to work – evidence from the Netherlands

Welfare benefits are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the poor need them to survive, on the other hand […]

  • benefit
  • child
  • labor market entry
  • labor market policy
  • mother
  • natural experiment
  • Netherlands
  • welfare
  • Jan C. van Ours
  • Marike Knoef

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