This paper analyses the impact of the business cycle on labour market dynamics in EU member states and the US during the first decade of the 21st century. Using unique measures of labour market flows constructed from worker-level micro data, we examine to what extent macro shocks were...

By simulating various (labour market) integration scenarios with the aid of a New Keynesian DSGE model, this paper explores the potential economic consequences and transmission mechanisms resulting from the recent refugee migration to Germany. We find that the long-run costs and benefits for...

This study analyses the persistence and true state dependence of overqualification, i.e. a mismatch between workers' qualifications and their jobs’ educational requirements. Employing individual-level panel data for Germany, I find that overqualification is highly persistent among tertiary...

To fight negative trends in the youth labour market, policymakers around the world foster vocational education and training programmes (VET). We therefore investigate how the share of three upper secondary education programmes, i.e. general education, school-based VET, and dual VET, affect the...

Die Arbeitsmarktchancen für Personen ohne abgeschlossene Berufsausbildung haben sich in den letzten zehn Jahren zwar verbessert. Der Erfolg beruhte aber vor allem darauf, dass es weniger Geringqualifizierte gibt. Er kam nicht dadurch zustande, dass im Segment einfacher Tätigkeiten vermehrt...

Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3% in 2000, and 11% of new permanent residents, up from 7%...

This essay discusses the determinants of youth unemployment within the EU and then the alternative policy options currently at stake. We argue that youth unemployment regards especially some peripheral EU countries and is due to a mix of factors that should be addressed more vigorously, starting...

Das ESF-BAMF-Programm zur berufsbezogenen Sprachförderung soll Personen mit Migrationshintergrund und mangelnden Deutschkenntnissen den Zugang zum deutschen Arbeitsmarkt erleichtern. Dieser Bericht gibt Aufschluss über die Struktur der Teilnehmenden, die in den Jahren 2014 und 2015 einen...

This paper provides empirical evidence that individual labor productivity significantly depends on the size of the local labor market in which a worker previously acquired work experience. The analysis uses German micro data from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) on transitions to...

Alleine im Februar 2016 haben 33.493 Flüchtlinge aus der Arabischen Republik Syrien einen Erstantrag auf ein Asylverfahren in Deutschland gestellt. Experten sind sich sicher, dass die starken Migrationsströme kein temporäres Phänomen sind, sondern - wenn auch in abgeschwächter Form - zum...

Ein großer Teil der in den Jahren 2015 und 2016 nach Deutschland gekommen Flüchtlinge ist inzwischen am deutschen Arbeitsmarkt angekommen. Jetzt stellt sich die Herausforderung, diese Personen zu integrieren. Dabei spielt die Qualifizierung eine zentrale Rolle.

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 investigates the effects of the labor market experience of high school dropouts four years after leaving school by sending fictitious résumés to real job postings in France. Compared to those who have stayed unemployed since leaving school, the callback rate is not raised for those...

This paper uses novel micro data from the ILO-STWT surveys to provide evidence on the duration, endpoint, and determinants of the transition from school to work in a sample of 23 low- and middle-income countries around the world. The paper analyzes both transition to the first job and to the...

This paper analyses how age at immigration to Sweden and getting a first foothold in the labor market is related. We estimate hazard rate models using registry data on all persons who arrived in each of the years 1990, 1994, 1998, and 2002. The results show that the number of years taken to get...

Die Digitalisierung beschleunigt die Gesellschaft und befördert Wandel auf allen gesellschaftlichen Ebenen. Bislang konzentriert sich die öffentliche Debatte allerdings oft nur auf beschäftigungspolitische Risiken, die sich durch digitale Technik ergeben, dabei kann Digitalisierung auch eine...

We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...

Social networks may affect workers' labor market outcomes. Using rich spatial data from administrative records, we analyze whether the employment status of neighbors influences the employment probability of a worker who lost his job due to a plant closure and the channels through which this...

We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...

This paper estimates the causal effect of vocational high school (VHS) education on employment likeli-hood relative to general high school (GHS) education in Turkey using census data. To address non-random selection into high school types, we collect construction dates of the VHSs at the...

Understanding employer preferences for characteristics of young workers is crucial to designing effective policies to reduce youth unemployment in developing countries. We conduct a randomized resume audit study, simultaneously examining the returns to education, experience, and physical...

Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of personality traits, or noncognitive skills. This study is among the first to examine how both...