19. February 2025 | Interviews
All articles in: Labour Market Policy
How do different countries integrate immigrants? How does language training link with skills training? Do these distinct policy choices have an impact on labour market outcomes? What about the gender ...read more
8. March 2024 | video
Gender Pay Gap in the United Kingdom and in Germany
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