The assumption that national labor markets are homogenous across tradable and non-tradable goods is common in multisector (open-economy) macro models and crucial for the prominent Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis. This study tests it with a novel method to distinguish the tradable and non-tradable...

Several post-Soviet states have introduced policies to improve the relative economic, political or social position of formerly disadvantaged populations. Using one example of such policies - 'Kazakhisation' in Kazakhstan - we investigate their impact on the comparative earnings of two directly...

This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...

This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...

Does early-career unemployment cause future unemployment? We answer this question with German administrative matched employer-employee data that track more than 800,000 individuals over 24 years. Using a censored quantile instrumental variable estimator and instrumenting early-career...

Several post-Soviet states have introduced policies to improve the relative economic, political or social position of formerly disadvantaged populations. Using one example of such policies - "Kazakhisation" in Kazakhstan - we investigate their impact on the comparative earnings of two directly...

Bildung zahlt sich aus. Berechnungen des IAB zeigen, dass Hochschulabsolventen durchschnittlich bis zum 2,7-Fachen dessen verdienen, was Personen ohne beruflichen Abschluss erhalten. Aber auch eine Berufsausbildung ist ihr Geld wert. Über das ganze Erwerbsleben hinweg addieren sich die...

Die Autoren untersuchen den Zusammenhang zwischen der Arbeitslosigkeit in den ersten acht Erwerbsjahren (als 'Jugendarbeitslosigkeit' bezeichnet) und derjenigen in den darauffolgenden 16 Erwerbsjahren (dem 'späteren Erwerbsleben') für Personen, die zwischen 1978 und 1980 in das Erwerbsleben...