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May 31, 2019

Causes, costs and benefits of migration

IZA's 16th Annual Migration Meeting discussed the labor market implications of refugee flows and migrant integration

  • illegal migration
  • immigration polices
  • labor market
  • migration
  • refugee
OpinionResearch

April 9, 2019

What was the effect of Hartz IV on German unemployment?

A macroeconomic controversy and a solution

  • Germany
  • Hartz reforms
  • labor market
  • unemployment
  • unemployment insurance
  • Brigitte Hochmuth
  • Britta Kohlbrecher
  • Christian Merkl
  • Hermann Gartner
Research

November 29, 2018

Early retirement increases mortality risk among men

Unhealthy retirement lifestyles may lead to more premature deaths

  • early retirement
  • health
  • labor market
  • lifestyle
  • mortality
  • retirement
  • Andreas Kuhn
  • Jean-Philippe Wuellrich
  • Josef Zweimüller
  • Stefan Staubli
IZA NewsResearch

November 5, 2018

Ten years after the financial crisis

Labor market adjustment in emerging and post-transition economies

  • emerging markets
  • financial crisis
  • Great Recession
  • human capital
  • labor market
  • post-transition economies
Research

March 1, 2018

How China’s rise has challenged the benign view of free trade

The costs and benefits of free trade are one of the most contentious topics in economic policy. Economists often argue […]

  • China
  • free trade
  • globalization
  • labor market
  • United States
  • David Autor
Research

September 28, 2017

The labor market in Japan, 2000–2016: A role model for aging societies across the globe

A new IZA World of Labor report looking at developments in the labor market in Japan since 2000 finds that […]

  • aging
  • childcare
  • demographic change
  • female labor force participation
  • healthcare
  • Japan
  • labor market
  • women
  • Daiji Kawaguchi
  • Hiroaki Mori
Research

August 25, 2017

How home ownership affects displaced workers’ future labor market outcomes

The owner-occupied housing market, alongside the labor market, suffered from strong negative developments in many countries during the Great Recession […]

  • commuting
  • commuting distance
  • geographic immobility
  • homeownership
  • housing
  • housing market
  • job displacement
  • labor market
  • labor market conditions
  • unemployment
  • Jordy Meekes
  • Wolter Hassink
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
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

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 3, 2016

Labor market disadvantages for persons with disabilities need tailored policy responses

December 3rd marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. In Europe, about one in eight people of working age […]

  • disability
  • employment gap
  • labor market
  • labor market discrimination
  • Melanie Jones
Research

August 30, 2016

Outsourcing of cognitive tasks to blame for polarized labor market, not technology

In recent decades labor markets in many developed countries have become increasingly polarized: middle-wage occupations have been declining, while employment […]

  • labor market
  • occupations
  • offshoring
  • outsourcing
  • polarization
  • skills
  • specialization
  • technology
  • UK
  • workplace
  • Andrea Salvatori
  • Guido Matias Cortes
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
Research

July 20, 2016

How female labor supply is influenced by working neighbors and retired grandmothers

Over the last century, female labor participation has increased in almost all developed countries. The availability of child care and […]

  • childcare
  • children
  • cultural norms
  • female employment
  • female labor supply
  • grandparents
  • labor market
  • neighborhood peer effects
  • peer effects
  • women
  • Cheti Nicoletti
  • Eleonora Patacchini
  • Emma Tominey
  • Francesco Scervini
  • Kjell G. Salvanes
  • Massimiliano Bratti
  • Nuno Mota
  • Stuart S. Rosenthal
  • Tommaso Frattini
Research

June 21, 2016

Automatic stabilizers: shock absorber or incentive killer?

The Great Recession has revived aggregate demand management policies. In particular, “automatic stabilizers” are praised since they are rule-based and […]

  • aggregate demand management
  • automatic stabilizers
  • budget
  • fiscal policy
  • Great Recession
  • labor market
  • labor market reforms
  • unemployment
  • László Andor
  • Torben M. Andersen
IZA News

May 15, 2016

IZA Prize goes to Claudia Goldin

The 2016 IZA Prize in Labor Economics goes to Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. […]

  • economic history
  • education
  • gender wage gap
  • Harvard
  • IZA Prize
  • labor market
  • women
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

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
IZA NewsResearch

April 13, 2016

From a global perspective: Assessing the effects of labor market reforms

Since the 2008/09 global recession unemployment and inequality have been on a rise. Reforms of labor markets have been one […]

  • active labor market policy
  • flexicurity
  • inequality
  • labor market
  • labor market institutions
  • labor market reforms
  • post-crisis reforms
  • Caroline Wehner
  • Paul Marx
  • Werner Eichhorst
Research

April 5, 2016

How bad is involuntary part-time work?

By Daniel Borowczyk-Martins (Sciences Po and IZA) and Etienne Lalé (University of Bristol and IZA) When assessing the state of […]

  • involuntary part-time employment
  • labor market
  • labor market fluctuations
  • labor market research
  • part-time employment
  • unemployment
  • United States
  • welfare effects
  • Andrea Garnero
  • Daniel Borowczyk-Martins
  • Etienne Lalé
Research

March 29, 2016

Turning unemployed into self-employed can be an effective alternative to traditional labor market policies

In order to curb unemployment, OECD countries have made enormous efforts and spent considerable sums on active labor market policies […]

  • active labor market policies
  • IZA World of Labor
  • labor market
  • OECD countries
  • self-employment
  • start-up subsidies
  • start-ups
  • unemployed
  • unemployment
  • Marco Caliendo
Research

March 18, 2016

How (lack of) sleep affects our economic behavior

Today is World Sleep Day! As recent IZA research shows, a good night of sleep is not just a matter […]

  • circadian rhythm
  • cognitive skills
  • education
  • health
  • labor market
  • labor productivity
  • numerical skills
  • risk preferences
  • sleep
  • sleep patterns
  • slepp deprivation
  • Christian Pfeifer
  • David L. Dickinson
  • Fabrizio Mazzonna
  • Lawrence Jin
  • Marco Castillo
  • Nicolas R. Ziebarth
  • Osea Giuntella
  • Ragan Petrie
  • Teny Maghakian Shapiro
  • Todd McElroy
  • Wei Han
Research

February 29, 2016

Why do many European graduates end up in lower-paid jobs?

Skill mismatch has become an issue of increasing policy concern in the aftermath of the economic crisis, which saw high […]

  • career
  • Europe
  • graduates
  • job characteristics
  • labor market
  • overeducation
  • skill content
  • skills mismatch
  • Konstantinos Pouliakas
  • Seamus McGuinness
Research

November 30, 2015

The effect of linguistic proximity on immigrants’ labor market performance

With the current increase of global mobility, immigration policy has jumped to the forefront of the political agenda. Immigration can […]

  • assimilation
  • Canada
  • global mobility
  • immigration
  • immigration policy
  • integration
  • labor market
  • labor market performance
  • language
  • linguistic proximity
  • Alicia Adsera
  • Ana Ferrer
Research

October 8, 2015

From challenge to opportunity: Europe and the refugee crisis

Up until recently, many Europeans knew images of large refugee camps and desperate families trying to cross borders only from […]

  • circular migration
  • Denmark
  • EU
  • European Union
  • immigration
  • immigration policies
  • integration
  • labor market
  • refugee
  • refugee crisis
  • refugees
  • Turkey
  • work permit
  • Evren Ceritoglu
  • Giovanni Peri
  • H. Burcu Gurcihan Yunculer
  • Hillel Rapoport
  • Huzeyfe Torun
  • Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
  • Mette Foged
  • Semih Tumen
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
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

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
ResearchVideos

September 15, 2014

Peter Kuhn on the internet as a labor market matchmaker

Since the internet’s earliest days, firms and workers have used various online methods to advertise and find jobs. Until recently […]

  • government resources
  • internet-sourced data
  • labor market
  • online job searching
  • reemployment
  • Peter Kuhn
Research

July 28, 2014

Female quotas in company boards: Norwegian evidence shows no trickle-down effect

Women still earn less than men, and are still under-represented in executive positions. In 2003, the Norwegian government passed a […]

  • female employment
  • female leadership
  • gender wage gap
  • labor market
  • Norway
  • quota
  • wage gap
  • women
  • Adriana Lleras-Muney
  • Marianne Bertrand
  • Nina Smith
  • Sandra E. Black
  • Sissel Jensen
Research

July 25, 2014

Risk and compensation in the labor market for drug smugglers

Every year, roughly 3,000 people are arrested while working as “mules” smuggling drugs through the ports of entry along the […]

  • compensation
  • drugs
  • illegal
  • labor market
  • Mexico
  • prison
  • regulation
  • risk
  • smuggling
  • Caleb Mason
  • David J. Bjerk
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
Research

March 28, 2014

In the gym and on the job: creatine makes successful

It is widely used among tennis players, ski jumpers and bodybuilders as a dietary supplement: Creatine, an organic acid that […]

  • Biomarker
  • Creatine
  • labor market
  • youth
  • Alex Bryson
  • Christian Hakulinen
  • Jutta Viinikainen
  • Laura Pulkki-Raback
  • Olli Raitakari
  • Petri Böckerman
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

July 5, 2013

Getting stuck in the blues – on the persistence of depression and anxiety

With 10% of the population in the Western world affected, depression and anxiety are two major health disorders. While the […]

  • anxiety
  • depression
  • health
  • health care
  • health policy
  • labor market
  • low income households
  • mental health
  • John Roy
  • Stefanie Schurer
Research

June 24, 2013

Do people discriminate others or favor their ownkind?

Discrimination is omnipresent in today’s labor markets: women receive lower wages, foreigner are less likely to be hired. While the […]

  • class room
  • discrimination
  • favoritism
  • field experiment
  • grading
  • labor market
  • Maastricht University
  • Netherlands
  • university
  • Daniel S. Hamermesh
  • Jan Feld
  • Nicolas Salamanca
Research

April 26, 2013

Blacks are still less happy than whites in the United States

In the United States the well-being of blacks is still below the well-being of whites. This has been shown by […]

  • civil rights
  • discrimination
  • labor market
  • prejudice
  • racial discrimination
  • subjetive well-being
  • United States
  • Betsey Stevenson
  • Justin Wolfers

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