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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
OpinionResearch

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

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

July 6, 2018

Job applicants under a vacancy referral scheme are viewed as less motivated

Experiment with professional recruiters in Belgium

  • active labor market policies
  • discrimination
  • employment agencies
  • experiment
  • interview
  • job application
  • job seekers
  • motivation
  • signaling
  • unemployment
  • vacancy
  • Eva Van Belle
  • Marijke De Couck
  • Ralf Caers
  • Stijn Baert
  • Valentina Di Stasio
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

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

May 24, 2017

Rise in earnings inequality is the biggest difficulty in today’s US labor market

A new IZA World of Labor report looking at the US labor market (2000-2016) finds a remarkable drop in the […]

  • earnings
  • Great Recession
  • income inequality
  • labor force participation
  • macro conditions
  • unemployment
  • United States
  • US labor market
  • Daniel S. Hamermesh
Research

April 7, 2017

Mental health affects employment outcomes – and vice versa

Depression, which is the focus of this year’s World Health Day, is also an important topic for labor economists as […]

  • depression
  • employment outcomes
  • gender
  • mental health
  • unemployment
  • well-being
  • David C. Ribar
  • Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
  • Melisa Bubonya
  • Richard Layard
IZA News

February 24, 2017

IZA/IAB Linked Evaluation Dataset: New resource for the analysis of labor market policies

High-quality data are the key to evaluating the effectiveness of labor market policies. While administrative datasets provide detailed and reliable […]

  • active labor market policy
  • attitudes
  • behavior
  • dataset
  • evaluation
  • IAB
  • job search
  • personality
  • unemployment
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

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

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
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
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

February 9, 2016

Why the unemployed need human coaches right from the start

 Electronic self-service platforms can help job-seekers find suitable vacancies and facilitate self-development. But the results of a recent research project […]

  • counseling
  • job coach
  • job seekers
  • public employment office
  • unemployment
  • Andries de Grip
  • Bert van Landeghem
  • Frank Cörvers
Research

September 21, 2015

Do case workers really help the unemployed? Interview with Michael Rosholm

Unemployment in Europe, particularly among young people, has risen dramatically during the Great Recession. This has put a lot of […]

  • active labor market policies
  • caseworkers
  • job centers
  • unemployment
  • youth
  • Jan van Ours
  • Michael Rosholm
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

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
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 20, 2014

How recessions produce career criminals

Recessions are known to create higher unemployment rates and lower levels of happiness and income. There is also growing evidence […]

  • arrest
  • crime
  • graduates
  • high school dropouts
  • labor market entry
  • recession
  • unemployment
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Anna Bindler
  • Brian Bell
  • Stephen Machin
Research

August 16, 2013

How the Great Recession affected domestic violence

During each global recession of the past decades there have been recurrent suggestions in the media that domestic violence increases […]

  • crime
  • crisis
  • domestic violence
  • gender differences
  • Great Recession
  • unemployment
  • Dan Anderberg
  • Helmut Rainer
  • Jonathan Wadsworth
  • Tanya Wilson
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 31, 2013

Seek and ye shall find: how search requirements affect job finding rates of older workers

Older workers often have difficulties to find a new job after becoming unemployment. While this problem is often attributed to […]

  • elderly
  • job finding
  • job search
  • Netherlands
  • older workers
  • unemployment
  • unemployment insurance
  • Jan C. van Ours
  • Patrick Hullegie

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