All articles in: International Labour Markets

Regina Konle-Seidl explains the concept of chronic unemployment in Denmark, Finland, and Germany in this video interview. ...read more

The report presents a summary of the workshop "The gender wage gap in Europe: What can we learn from linked employer-employee data?". ...read more

Professor Enzo Weber presents his concept of Digital Social Security in this video interview and explains the first steps to put the concept into ...read more

23. May 2019 |

Protectionism and the argument for creating jobs at home

Ignat Stepanok

In the political debate, trade protectionism has been frequently associated with keeping and increasing the number of jobs at home. The argument is, however, not so simple, since international trade ...read more

Regina Konle-Seidl, researcher at the IAB in Nuremberg, compares in our video interview policies and practices to faciliate labour market integration of migrants in Austria, Germany, and Sweden. She ...read more

An interview with Tito Boeri, former President of the Italian National Social Security, on the current situation and the future of the Italian social security ...read more

An inteview with the IAB researcher Herbert Brücker and Yuliya Kosyakova on the second wave of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees. ...read more

The article focuses on online gig economy which is transnational and spans a full spectrum of skills, from data entry to software development. The gig economy offers an interesting view to the future ...read more

A good 70 percent of refugees in Germany come from eight non-European asylum seekers’ countries of origin. Their integration into the German labour market has increasingly gained momentum in ...read more