The distribution of total work in the EU and USA / Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, and Philippe Weil -- Comments / Alberto Alesina, Christopher Pissarides -- Labor market effects of work-sharing arrangements in Europe / Francis Kramarz, Pierre Cahuc, Bruno Crépon, Oskar Nordström Skans,...

With the Russian war against Ukraine, global economic conditions changed abruptly. We provide first causal evidence of effects of the energy crisis on Germany as Europe's most important economy. Combining cost structure data, national accounts and administrative labour market data, we identify...

During the COVID-19 pandemic there were supply chain bottlenecks all over the world with regard to raw materials and intermediate products. In this article, we examine how these constraints affected labour market development. For an empirical panel analysis, we combine survey data and...