8. March 2024 | video
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The 8th of March marks the annual International Women’s Day. Wages are an important factor in driving gender parity. In a video interview Professor Alan Manning talks about the gender pay gap ...read more
15. December 2023 |
Recent Developments in the Distribution of Labour Income and Skills
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 ...read more
28. November 2023 | International and Regional Labour Markets
Easy come, easy go: Return migration increases with tax incentives in the home country
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 ...read more
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, ...read more
16. May 2023 | International perspectives on applying short-time work during the Covid-19 crisis
“At the peak, 40 percent of the French labour force were on short-time work”
In France, just like in many other European countries, short-time work has proved to be a powerful tool to prevent massive layoffs during the Covid-19 pandemic. The traditional French short-time work ...read more
8. March 2023 | International perspectives on applying short-time work during the Covid-19 crisis
“Extended coverage and benefit duration boosted the role of short-time work in Italy during the Covid-19 crisis”
In many European countries, short-time work proved to be a strong measure to combat massive layoffs during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the case of Italy, a scheme widely used in former times of crisis ...read more
28. February 2023 | International perspectives on applying short-time work during the Covid-19 crisis
“Short-time work proved to be a highly effective instrument in times of crisis.”
In Germany, short-time work has played a crucial role in stabilising the labour market both in the financial and the coronavirus crisis. At the same time, the administration of short-time allowance ...read more
Russia’s exports account for a large share of world trade in a few goods and commodities classes. These are most notably nickel, fertilisers, mineral fuels and mineral oils, cereals and wood. Their ...read more
19. December 2019 |
The sources behind the gender wage gap of university graduates
For every euro a man earned per hour in Germany in 2018, a woman earned on average only 0.79 euros. This amounts to a gender wage gap of 21 percent, which is even greater among high-skilled ...read more