Virtual Seminar series: Corona – leveller or amplifier of social and economic inequality?
16 June 2021
The Corona pandemic has far-reaching economic and social consequences for our society, in addition to the health implications. This raises a wide range of questions about social and economic inequalities, which will be discussed in the virtual interdisciplinary seminar series "Corona - leveller or amplifier of social and economic inequality?".
On June 21st, 2021 from 12:00 until 13:00 CET, Hans Dubois (Eurofound) will present his paper "The impact of COVID-19 on living conditions of older people, and their care needs"
Registration via XING Events
Virtual Seminar Series on Minimum Wages and Low Wage Policies
16 June 2021
In May, June and July, the IAB and the Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER) of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg jointly organize a weekly virtual seminar series on "Minimum Wages and Low Wage Policies".
In the seminar, current research projects from the international research community are presented and discussed.
The next seminar by Emiel van Bezooijen (Utrecht University) und Toni Juuti (Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki) takes place June 23rd at 5:00pm Central European Summer Time.
Free registration is available via XING Events
2nd International Workshop Machine Learning in Labor, Education, and Health Economics
16 June 2021
On November 18 and 19, 2021, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center (LASER), and IAB will jointly host the 2nd International Workshop Machine Learning in Labor, Education, and Health Economics. The two-day workshop aims to bring together researchers applying machine learning methods in the fields of labor economics, economics of education, and health economics.
Call for Papers
Macroeconomics and Labor Markets - Summer Term 2021
16 June 2021
The next seminar takes place June 22, 2021. Marianna Kudlyak (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and CEPR) will talk about "Why Has the US Economy Recovered So Consistently from Every Recession in the Past 70 Years?“ (joint with Robert E. Hall).
If you are a researcher and you are interested to join the talks, please send an e-mail to macrolabor.seminar@gmail.com
Full program FAU/IAB-Seminar Macroeconomics and Labor Markets - Summer Term 2021
3rd Forum „Higher Education and the Labour Market“ (HELM) of the DZHW and the IAB
08 June 2021
On September 20th and 21st 2021, the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) and the IAB will hold the 3rd forum „Higher Education and the Labour Market“ (HELM). In addition to general contributions on the link between higher education and the labour market, contributions on this year’s focus topic “Dropping out of Higher Education: Reasons, Selectivity, and Labour Market Outcomes“ are particularly welcome. The conference will be held online. The conference language is English.
For details, please refer to the full Call for Papers.
European Labour Market Barometer: Biggest rise recorded so far
04 June 2021
The European Labour Market Barometer climbed to 103.3 points in May. With a rise of 2.0 points compared to April, the leading indicator of the European Network of Public Employment Services and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) therefore registered its strongest growth since its records began. “The grip of the pandemic is easing,” says IAB head of forecast Enzo Weber, feeling optimistic. “Europe’s labour markets are starting to recover.”
Press release
European Labour Market Barometer
Social protection of atypical workers during the Covid-19 crisis
28 May 2021
The Covid-19 crisis acts like a magnifying glass under which already existing problems within countries’ social protection systems become more visible than before. It puts the spotlight on weaknesses, especially the social protection of the atypically employed and the (solo) self-employed.
The full article can be found in our Magazine IAB-Forum.
Click the following link for more articles in the series “COVID-19 Crisis: Consequences for the Labour Market".
FDI and Onshore Employment Dynamics - Evidence from German Firms with Affiliates in the Czech Republic
10 May 2021
In this paper, we revisit questions about the onshore employment effects of firms that conduct foreign direct investment (FDI) in countries with substantially lower averagewages. Our results derive from the use of rich administrative records on the universe of employees in German multinational enterprises (MNEs) that were active in the Czech Republic in 2010. Compared with former studies, the unique dataset in this study includes a much higher fraction of small and medium-sized firms and leads to strikingly different results for service MNEs. Applying coarsened exact matching for firms and an event-study design, we show that the domestic employment growth of MNEs decreases relative to that of non-MNEs and that the affected workers are those with low or medium educational attainment in the manufacturing sector and with medium or high educational attainment in the service sector. Regarding workers’ tasks, our results do not show that FDI affects routine jobs beyond a worker’s skill level.
IAB-Discussion Paper 9/2021
Who Suffers the Greatest Loss? Costs of Job Displacement for Migrants and Natives
04 May 2021
The authors are the first to provide empirical evidence on differences in the individual costs of job loss for migrants compared to natives in Germany. Using linked employer-employee data for the period 1996-2017, they compute each displaced worker’s earnings, wage, and employment loss after a mass layoff in comparison to a matched, nondisplaced, control worker.
IAB-Discussion Paper 8/2021
Industry interconnectedness and regional economic growth in Germany
28 April 2021
Urban systems, and regions more generally, are the epicenters of many of today’s social issues. Yet they are also the global drivers of technological innovation and thus it is critical that we understand their vulnerabilities and what makes them resilient to different types of shocks. We take regions to be systems composed of internal networks of interdependent components. As the connectedness of those networks increases, it allows information and resources to move more rapidly within a region. Yet, it also increases the speed and efficiency at which the effects of shocks cascade through the system. Here we analyze regional networks of interdependent industries and how their structures relate to a region’s vulnerability to shocks. Methodologically, we utilize a metric of economic connectedness, known as tightness, which attempts to quantify the ambiguous notion of a region’s internal connectedness relative to other regions.
IAB-Discussion Paper 7/2021