Posts tagged with 'Arbeitslosigkeit'
December 10, 2024
Affordable housing improves individual labor market outcomes
New research reveals long-term income gains and stability benefits linked to subsidized housing policies
November 4, 2024
Air pollution cuts job seekers’ wage demands
New study links poor air quality to reduced job search effort
June 24, 2022
Minimum wage increases lead to substantial declines in vacancy postings
Largest effect in at-risk occupations
May 20, 2021
Short-time work reduces unemployment and stabilizes aggregate demand
Lower risk of income loss moderates drop in consumption
May 18, 2021
Covid-19 scrambled European country ranking of labor market performance
Small changes in unemployment and inactivity, but notable differences between countries in 2020
December 23, 2020
Suddenly a stay-at-home dad?
How fathers' job loss affects time investment in the household
November 6, 2019
Economic causes and consequences of mass shootings
Perpetrators are often low-educated and in financial distress — shootings leave lasting scars on local labor markets
July 9, 2019
How parents pay for their unemployed adult children
Study analyzes changes in consumption, work and saving habits
May 10, 2019
Being bullied in school leads to poorer outcomes later in life
Persistent or violent types of bullying have the worst consequences
April 9, 2019
What was the effect of Hartz IV on German unemployment?
A macroeconomic controversy and a solution
February 21, 2019
How minimum wages affect employment and labor market participation
Analysis of short-run effects based on individual-level data
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
July 11, 2017
Long-term unemployed through the eyes of recruiters: Less motivated, less talented and less trainable
Recent research has shown that employers are reluctant to hire long-term unemployed: the longer job candidates’ unemployment spell, the lower […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
January 27, 2014
Soccer motivates the unemployed
International soccer tournaments attract enormous attention in most countries. Germany is one country in which these soccer tournaments are especially […]
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 […]