This paper analyzes the impact of college students' coworker networks formed during student jobs on their labor market outcomes after graduation. For our analysis, we use novel data that links students' administrative university records with their pre- and post-graduation employment registry...

This paper analyzes the impact of college students' coworker networks formed during student jobs on their labor market outcomes after graduation. For our analysis, we use novel data that links students' administrative university records with their pre- and post-graduation employment registry...

This paper presents the results of a randomized study of a home visiting programme implemented in Germany for low-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the programme is to improve the participants' economic self-sufficiency and family planning. I use administrative data from the German...

Zur Vorbereitung des Jahresgutachtens 2023/2024 des Sachverständigenrats zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung wurde das IAB um seine Expertise zur Reform zum Bürgergeld, zum Gesetzesentwurf zur Kindergrundsicherung, zur Anhebung der Einkommensgrenze für Midijobs sowie zur...

Michael Kalinowski und Harald Pfeifer, Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, sehen in dem Anstieg der Zahl junger Erwachsener ohne formalen Berufsabschluss ein Problem. Eine Reduzierung könne nur durch eine verstärkte Einbindung schwächerer Jugendlicher in das Ausbildungssystem gelingen. So...

How much did young people suffer from the COVID-19 pandemic? A growing number of studies address this question, but they often lack a comparison group that was unaffected by the pandemic, and the observation window is usually short. Here, we compared the 2-year development of life satisfaction...

In recent years many countries increased border controls, partly in response to public concerns that open borders are favoring cross-border crime. Despite these widespread concerns, empirical research on whether public fears are justi ed is still scarce. This article evaluates whether the...

Obesity not only leads to immense medical costs associated with treating obesity-related illness but is also associated with lower employment prospects and earnings. This study shows that sunshine-induced vitamin D may have a preventive effect on obesity for children. It investigates the...

Using novel longitudinal data, this paper studies the short- and medium-term effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 on social trust of adolescents in Germany. Comparing adolescents who responded to our survey shortly before the start of the war with those who responded...

In seiner Stellungnahme zum Gesetzentwurf der Bundesregierung zur Einführung einer Kindergrundsicherung geht das IAB auf die angestrebten Ziele und deren Erreichbarkeit unter folgenden Aspekten ein: Reduzierung von Kinderarmut, Erhöhung der Inanspruchnahme der den Kindern zustehenden...