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15. December 2023 | International and Regional Labour Markets

Recent Developments in the Distribution of Labour Income and Skills

Lutz Bellmann

Contributing to a better understanding of wage determination and wage distribution as well as job skills – that was the aim of the international conference “Recent Developments in Wage ...weiterlesen

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

For many years, Germany has been facing an increasing skills shortage in key occupations and has sought to attract a growing number of highly-skilled immigrants. In striving for this goal, Germany is ...weiterlesen

The Network of European Labour Market Research Institutes (ELMI) held its first conference in Luxembourg on 30 and 31 October 2023. The event brought together leading national and international ...weiterlesen

During the Covid-19-crisis Australia quickly introduced the “JobKeeper scheme” – a large scale and easy to implement wage subsidy program to keep firms and employees together. However, ...weiterlesen

On average, women earn less than men. So far, gender-specific application behaviour has received little attention in this context. It can, however, explain a considerable part of the gender earnings ...weiterlesen

30. August 2023 | Interviews

“Eviction creates Poverty”

Christine Vigeant

In an interview Matthew Desmond, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, gives insights into the situation of renters in the US, shows the consequences of the eviction crisis to society and ...weiterlesen

The Great Resignation debate suggests that during the coronavirus crisis, workers would have increasingly switched the industry in which they were previously employed. This is not the case for ...weiterlesen

Alexander Hijzen, a senior economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), gives an overview of the country-specific application of short-time work during the Covid-19 ...weiterlesen