Due to structural changes in the labour market, the importance of lifelong learning has become increasingly apparent. However, employees in different skill groups participate in continued training to varying degrees. In addition, personality traits seem to be one of the factors determining workers’ participation in further training. Nevertheless, their effects are less pronounced amongst low-skilled read full article

Professor Filiz Garip from Princeton University talks in this interview about climate change, migration, and inequality.

Professor Alan Manning, one of the world’s most renowned labour market economists, explains in this video-statement the basic idea of imperfect competition in the labour market. He elaborates on the power of employers to keep wages lower than they would be in a competitive market and stresses the importance to address this imbalance with institutions read full article

Spain used a short-time work scheme called “Expediente Temporal de Regulación de Empleo” during the Covid-19 crisis. In this interview, Marcel Jansen, Associate Professor of Economics at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), will explain how it worked, how it changed during the pandemic, and what lessons can be learned from the Spanish experience.

The longer Ukrainian refugees stay in their receiving countries, the more urgent questions about their integration into the local labour markets become. In this context, also the issue of which educational and vocational background the adults have, is becoming more important. The characteristics of refugees often differ from those of the people who remain in read full article

More and more tasks can be automated with the help of modern technologies. Up to now, men in Germany are potentially more affected than women: 40 percent of men work in occupations with a high substitution potential, compared to 27 percent of women. However, in some occupational fields, the tasks performed by women have on read full article

The labour market undergoes fundamental technological and ecological changes – all this on top of the Covid-19 crisis. Researchers from all over the world and from various disciplines discussed the impact of these challenges on the job content and skill requirements as well as on workers and establishment during the sixth TASKS conference that took read full article

Interview with IAB director Bernd Fitzenberger on the effects of the current crises on the labour market of the future.

Refugee women take for multiple reasons longer to be integrated into the German labour market than men.