Das Erwerbspersonenpotenzial in Deutschland würde bei einer Nettomigration im Umfang von jährlich 200.000 Personen von 45,8 Mio. im Jahr 2015 auf 44,5 Mio. bis 2030 und auf 38,9 Mio. Personen im Jahr 2060 sinken. Erhöht man in den Modellrechnungen den jährlichen Wanderungssaldo um 100.000...

Nach dem Ausländerzentralregister ist die Bevölkerung im erwerbsfähigen Alter aus den wichtigsten nichteuropäischen Asylherkunftsländern im Zeitraum vom 1.1.2015 bis zum 31.12.2016 um 687.000 Personen gestiegen; die Beschäftigung dieser Personen hat nach der Beschäftigungsstatistik der BA...

This paper aims to study the impact of migration on labour supply and time-use of women left behind in Kyrgyzstan. Using the household survey data for 2011, labour supply is measured by occupational choices and working hours. Apart from the labour supply data, this study uses detailed...

We examine the impact of house prices on labour supply decisions using UK micro data. We combine household survey data with local level house price measures and controls for local labour demand. Our micro data also allows us to control for individual level income expectations. We find...

The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political controversy and raised questions that require a fuller understanding of the determinants and consequences of refugee supply shocks. This paper revisits four historical refugee...

This paper presents an analysis of the differential role of mortality for the optimal schooling and retirement age when the accumulation of human capital follows the so-called "Ben-Porath mechanism". We set up a life-cycle model of consumption and labor supply at the extensive margin that allows...

Crowdsourcing, von den einen als innovative Form der Arbeitsorganisation gefeiert, von den anderen als neue Form prekärer Beschäftigung verteufelt, ist inzwischen eines der meist diskutierten Themen in der Debatte um die Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt. Auf der Basis einer Befragung von 434...

This paper delves into the well-known phenomenon of shrinking wage elasticities for married women in the US over recent decades. The results of a novel model experimental approach via sample data ordering unveil considerable heterogeneity across different wage groups. Yet, surprisingly constant...

Um die wirtschaftliche Leistungsfähigkeit zu sichern, ist Deutschland vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels zunehmend auf Fachkräfte aus dem Ausland angewiesen. Ohne Zuwanderung würde die Bevölkerung im erwerbsfähigen Alter zwischen 20 und 64 Jahren bis zum Jahr 2035...

In recent years, many employees have gained more control over temporal and locational aspects of their work via a variety of flexible work arrangements, such as flexi-time and telehomework. This temporal and locational flexibility of work (TLF) is often seen as a means to facilitate the...

Der Bericht untersucht die Wirkungen der Flüchtlingszuwanderung auf das Erwerbspersonenpotenzial und aktualisiert damit Ergebnisse aus dem Jahr 2015. Betrachtet wird der Effekt der Zuwanderung von Asylsuchenden ab dem Jahr 2015. Unter den getroffenen Annahmen liegt das Erwerbspersonenpotenzial...

We measure the impact of measurement error in labor-supply elasticities estimated over recalled usual work hours, as is ubiquitous in the literature. Employing hours of work in diaries collected by the American Time Use Survey, 2003-12, along with the same respondents' recalled usual hours, we...

Achieving low unemployment in an environment of weak growth is a major policy challenge; a more egalitarian distribution of hours worked could be the key to solving it. Whether worksharing actually increases employment, however, has been debated controversially. In this article we present...

One of the main purposes of recent healthcare reform (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - ACA) in the U.S. is to enable Americans to make more productive use of their time. We examine how the ACA's dependent care coverage mandate (DCM) affected young adults' time allocation. Based on...

The introduction of the Australian Paid Parental Leave scheme in 2011 provides a rare opportunity to estimate the labour supply and employment impacts of publicly-funded paid leave on mothers in the first year post-partum. The almost universal coverage of the scheme coupled with detailed survey...

This paper analyses optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. It models the interaction between wage rates and variation in child care prices and productivities as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second...

Volatility in commodity markets poses an acute risk to farmers in developing countries who rely on cash crop agriculture. We combine a time series of international coffee prices with a long-running panel on coffee-growing households in Viet Nam to investigate coping mechanisms employed by...

This paper considers the education of the labour force based on an analysis of trends in and the relationships between job polarization and skills mismatch. Both job polarization and skills mismatch have become topics of increasing interest, but relationships between the two have been relatively...

Conventional labor supply studies assume constant eligibility monitoring of income-tested program participants, but this is not true for most programs. For example, states can allow children to enroll in Medicaid/CHIP for 12 months regardless of family income changes. A long recertification...