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February 26, 2020

Does it pay to start your career with a job at a larger firm?

Size matters for young workers' long-term outcomes

  • career
  • entry job
  • firm size
  • job search
  • lifetime income
  • skills
  • Jaime Arellano-Bover
IZA News

November 1, 2019

Skills, preferences and labor market outcomes

3rd IZA/HSE workshop discusses new research from post-transition and emerging economies

  • emerging economies
  • preferences
  • skills
  • transition
  • Alexander Muravyev
  • Hartmut Lehmann
  • Rostislav Kapeliushnikov
  • Vladimir Gimpelson
Research

June 4, 2019

Global distribution of (non-)routine work

Large cross-country differences in task content of jobs

  • automation
  • digitalization
  • future of work
  • globalization
  • occupations
  • routine intensity
  • skills
  • task content
  • technology
  • Albert Park
  • Piotr Lewandowski
  • Wojciech Hardy
  • Yang Du
OpinionResearch

August 7, 2018

Britain’s got talent

Developing it could be key to solving the productivity puzzle post-Brexit

  • human resources
  • job skills
  • productivity
  • skills
  • skills gap
  • UK
  • workforce
  • Getinet Haile
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

June 21, 2017

The economic value of Breaking Bad: How misbehavior in school pays off for some kids

By Nicholas W. Papageorge (Johns Hopkins University and IZA) There is growing interest in how schools can shape children’s non-cognitive […]

  • behavioral traits
  • classroom
  • earnings
  • education
  • non-cognitive skills
  • personality
  • school
  • schooling
  • skills
  • Flavio Cunha
  • Greg J. Duncan
  • James Heckman
  • Jora Stixrud
  • Nicholas W. Papageorge
  • Rachel Dunifon
  • Sergio Urzua
  • Susanne M. Schennach
  • Tim Kautz
  • Victor Ronda
  • Yu Zheng
Research

February 20, 2017

On World Day of Social Justice: Insights on economic inequality from IZA World of Labor

The UN has proclaimed February 20 the “World Day of Social Justice” to support efforts of the international community in […]

  • Developing Countries
  • economic inequality
  • education
  • inclusion
  • inequality
  • poverty
  • preschool
  • racial inequality
  • skills
  • wealth inequality
  • World Day of Social Justice
  • Abebe Shimeles
  • Alvaro Forteza
  • Graziella Bertocchi
  • Jamele Rigolini
  • Jane Waldfogel
  • Jo Blanden
  • Lorenzo Cappellari
  • Martin Biewen
  • Stijn Broecke
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

November 20, 2015

Courage, trust and autonomy: Werner Eichhorst outlines challenges of the new world of work

In a recent podcast by the WorkLife HUB, an online platform focusing on work-life balance topics, Werner Eichhorst speaks about […]

  • autonomy
  • education
  • employability
  • future of work
  • lifelong learning
  • robots
  • skills
  • smart machines
  • work environment
  • Werner Eichhorst
Research

November 11, 2015

Youth employment programs around the world – do they work?

Improving the employment prospects of the young generation has become a top priority in labor market policymaking around the globe. […]

  • Development
  • evaluation
  • meta-analysis
  • policy intervention
  • skills
  • youth employment
  • Ulf Rinne
  • Werner Eichhorst
Research

October 9, 2014

Immigrant women: Not just secondary workers any more

Immigrant women in the labor market have long been viewed as “secondary workers” who work in unskilled jobs, mainly as […]

  • Canada
  • immigrants
  • job-traps
  • labor market participation
  • married
  • migration
  • secondary worker
  • skills
  • women
  • Alicia Adsera
  • Ana Ferrer
Videos

August 24, 2014

Employee performance and the value of the bosses: Video interview with Kathryn Shaw

Employees should ultimately be paid for performance, not for working hours, says Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University and IZA) in a […]

  • behavior
  • bosses
  • education
  • incentive
  • skills
  • wage inequality
  • Kathryn Shaw
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

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