This chapter traces the evolution of the study of gender in the labor market, focusing on how academic thinking on this topic has evolved alongside real world developments in gender inequality from the 1980s to the present. We present a simple model of female labor supply to illustrate how...

In this interview, Christian Dustmann discusses current opportunities and challenges for the German labour market. The interview covers a wide range of topics such as the differences between labour migration and refugee migration, the flexibilisation of working conditions to attract and retain...

Labor economists increasingly work in empirical contexts with large numbers of unit-specific parameters. These settings include a growing number of value-added studies measuring causal effects of individual units like firms, managers, neighborhoods, teachers, schools, doctors, hospitals, police...

We build and analyze a new U.S. database that links 125 million applications to job vacancies and employer-side clients on Dice.com, an online platform for jobs and workers in software design, computer systems, engineering, financial analysis, management consulting, and other occupations that...

Categorical variables have no intrinsic ordering, and researchers often adopt a fixed-effect (FE) approach in empirical analysis. However, this approach has two significant limitations: it overlooks textual labels associated with the categorical variables; and it produces unstable results when...

According to demographic projections, advanced economies will face population decline in the years and decades to come, particularly among working-age. Despite this impending profound transition, there is little empirical evidence of corresponding labour market implications. Tackling this...

This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the employment and occupational assimilation of recent immigrant waves to the Spanish labor market as their residencies lengthen. Using Spanish data from the 2001 Population Census and the 2002 Earnings Structure Survey, we find evidence of immigrant...

This paper develops a model of equilibrium unemployment with (unobservable) endogenous on-the-job search and (partly unobservable) endogenous search behavior by firms. The model allows to analyze crowding-out of unemployed job seekers by endogenous on-the-job search of employees, and the...

According to demographic projections, advanced economies will face population decline in the years and decades to come, particularly among working-age. Despite this impending profound transition, there is little empirical evidence of corresponding labour market implications. Tackling this...

The report presents an analysis of the jobs portfolio for Nepal covering WB operations as well as Development Partners' (DP) activities, with the objective of understanding the approach towards jobs specific targets and identify gaps to influence future investments. This portfolio review looks...

In the context of Vietnam’s impressive economic growth over the last two decades, several studies have documented gender disparities, but few have studied the underlying constraints that drive the disparities. The Vietnamese government is working to increase its support to job seekers. To help...

Zur Vorbereitung des Jahresgutachtens 20/2021 des Sachverständigenrats zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung wurde das IAB um seine Expertise zur Konjunktur und Situation auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt sowie zur Bedeutung des Kurzarbeitergeldes und der Rücklagenpolitik der...

The Yale Labor Survey (YLS) uses online panels to estimate the state of the US labor market in real time. It is designed to parallel the US government's monthly labor force survey and present weekly information rapidly and inexpensively. Using an experimental design, the YLS estimates that the...

This paper examines the manner in which owner-occupiers housing costs are incorporated in the official inflation index. In particular, the focus is on the net acquisitions and the payments approach, which are currently used by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). The paper provides a detailed...

Aus dem Vorwort: Die im Mai 1975 vom Europäischen Rat ins Leben gerufene Europäische Stiftung zur Verbesserung der Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen (Eurofound) ist eine Agentur der Europäischen Union, die das Thema der Verbesserung der Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen in Europa als zentrales...

We create a measure of multiple jobholding from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data. This new series shows that 7.8 percent of persons in the U.S. are multiple jobholders, this percentage is pro-cyclical, and has been trending upward during the past twenty...

Despite widespread recognition that the aggregate labour market is composed of a number of heterogeneous submarkets, there is little guidance on how to appropriately delineate such submarkets when conducting economic research. This paper contributes to a small but growing body of work addressing...

We create a measure of multiple jobholding from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data. This new series shows that 7.8 percent of persons in the U.S. are multiple jobholders, this percentage is pro-cyclical, and has been trending upward during the past twenty...

Die Studie untersucht ausgewählte Arbeitsmarktergebnisse von Studierenden, die die Universität ohne Abschluss verlassen haben. Datengrundlage sind Stichproben aus dem SOEP. Es werden ökonometrische Schätzverfahren mit Hilfe des maschinelles Lernen verwendet.

How technological change affects wages, employment and the income distribution are core topics in economics since the very beginnings of modern economic research. Who are the winners and losers of innovations? Is technological progress always to the advantage of some groups and to the...

"Zur Vorbereitung des Jahresgutachtens 2019/2020 des Sachverständigenrats zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung wurde das IAB um seine Expertise zur Konjunktur und Situation auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt sowie zu Kurzarbeit und geförderter Weiterbildung von Beschäftigten...

Higher education graduates with work experience enter the labour market more smoothly. This paper analyses how work experience from vocational education and training (VET) affects labour market outcomes after higher education. To account for selection into VET we use the regional enrolment rate...

This working paper presents the results of the ETUI Internet and Platform Work Survey conducted in Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Slovakia in 2018-2019. The objective is to map the extent of digital labour in central and eastern Europe (CEE). We analyse two types of online sources for...

Rethinking Theory on the Role of Technological Innovation in Economic Development -- Information Model for Calculating the Rate of Technical Progress -- K-Waves and the Innovation-Technological Paradigm of Schumpeter–Mensch–Freeman–Hirooka -- Assessment of the Quality of Growth of National...