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How elastic is labor demand? A meta-analysis for the German labor market
The own-wage elasticity of labor demand measures the effect of higher wages on firms’ demand for labor and, thus, determines the impact of supply...
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German labor market reform and the rise of Eastern Europe: dissecting their effects on employment
From the early 1990s until 2005 the unemployment rate rose in Germany from 7.3 to 11.7%. While the unemployment rate reached its peak in 2005, it...
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The wage effects of offshoring to the East and West: evidence from the German labor market
This paper analyzes the labor market effects of offshoring in a high-wage home country and how these effects crucially depend on (1) Job complexity...
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Labor market regulation and the cyclicality of involuntary part-time work
In times of economic crisis, many employers in liberal labor markets reduce their employees’ working hours, which leads to an increase in the...
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Geodata in labor market research: trends, potentials and perspectives
This article shows the potentials of georeferenced data for labor market research. We review developments in the literature and highlight areas that...
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Labor Market Agglomeration Economies
Labor market agglomeration economies refer to the benefits from the concentration of workers (employment) in cities. Such benefits increase workers’...
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Unraveling wage inequality: tangible and intangible assets, globalization and labor market regulations
In this paper, we study the asymmetric effects of different types of capital-embodied technological change, as proxied by tangible and intangible...
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Routine job dynamics in the Swiss labor market
I investigate the role of labor market flows in the decline of routine employment in Switzerland between 1992 and 2018 using rich individual-level...
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Labor market changes and social inclusiveness across regions: evidence from the rise of the modern office
Could complex changes in the labor market reduce social inequalities across regions? We study the rise of office employment in the early twentieth...
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Labor market tightness and individual wage growth: evidence from Germany
It is often stated that certain occupations in Germany, because of “ Demographic Change “, are dwindling, implying a labor shortage. We investigate...
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Gender effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Swiss labor market
We study the impact of the pandemic on gender gaps in labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using the Swiss Labor Force Survey data, we document a...
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How sensitive are matching estimates of active labor market policy effects to typically unobserved confounders?
Using a rich and unique combined administrative-survey dataset, this paper explores how sensitive propensity score (PS) matching estimates of Active...
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The effect of fertility on female labor supply in a labor market with extensive informality
This paper presents new evidence on the causal link between fertility and female labor supply by focusing on how informal employment interacts with...
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Gravity in the Beautiful Game: Labor Market Liberalization and Footballer Migration
Until 1996, mobility costs for football players in Europe were high. Clubs retained rights to players when their contracts expired and were able to...
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Greening work: labor market policies for the environment
Jobs are essential for social inclusion, raising taxes, and guaranteeing the financial resilience of (welfare) states. At the same time, the...
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Make IT Work: The Labor Market Effects of Information Technology Retraining in the Netherlands
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effects of an active labor market program (ALMP) for higher educated workers in the Netherlands. The...
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The heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 on labor market flows: evidence from administrative data
We investigate the short-term effects of COVID-19 on labor market flows and how they are mediated by labor market policy. Using Italian...
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Labor market efficiency: output as the measure of welfare
We study the matching of workers to firms in which workers choose an observable and contractable effort after the match. If there are...
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Migration Trend and Labor Market in Kosovo
Migration is a global phenomenon, and as such continues in Kosovo, the main target for us in Western Europe. It even seems as if this phenomenon has...
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Labor Market and Urban Wage Premium
Large cities boost labor productivity. Nominal wages are known to increase with city size as a result. This chapter examines the reasons behind urban...