21. February 2024 |
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In the modern and highly digitalised world constant updating one’s qualifications seems inevitable. Thus the importance of lifelong education has been increasing. Despite this global trend, ...read more
1. February 2024 | Interviews
“Eroding trust in the state and in frontline workers can become a catalyst for the rise of populism”
Professor Gabriela Spanghero Lotta explores the dynamics of citizen-state interactions in Latin America, outlines the role of frontline workers in dealing with situations of vulnerability, and ...read more
29. December 2023 | Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Younger and less satisfied? Young workers’ life satisfaction during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany
Adverse effects on workers’ employment situation are highly unequal for different groups. Young workers were particularly affected by the pandemic. They were less likely to receive short-time ...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
29. November 2023 | Interviews
“Not recognizing climate change related mobility will not obliterate it, but likely lead to more clandestine mobility”
Professor Filiz Garip from Princeton University talks in this interview about climate change, migration, and inequality. ...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
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 ...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
14. August 2023 | Structural Change and the Labour Market
The IAB-LinkedIn Reallocation Radar: “Great Resignation” is not a trend
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 ...read more