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
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
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
25. October 2023 | Wages and Employment
How men and women differ when searching for a job: application behaviour can explain half of the residual earnings gap
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 ...read more
30. August 2023 | Interviews
“Eviction creates Poverty”
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 ...read more
Professor Alan Manning, one of the world’s most renowned labour market economists, explains in this video-statement the basic idea of imperfect competition in the labour market. He elaborates ...read more
Spain used a short-time work scheme called “Expediente Temporal de Regulación de Empleo” during the Covid-19 crisis. In this interview, Marcel Jansen, Associate Professor of Economics at the ...read more
1. December 2022 | Series "The Effects of the Ukraine War on the German Labour Market"
Vocational training in Ukraine – an overview
The longer Ukrainian refugees stay in their receiving countries, the more urgent questions about their integration into the local labour markets become. In this context, also the issue of which ...read more
22. November 2022 | Digital and ecological transformation
Double-edged sword: How does digitalisation impact on gender inequality in the labour market?
More and more tasks can be automated with the help of modern technologies. Up to now, men in Germany are potentially more affected than women: 40 percent of men work in occupations with a high ...read more