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  1. The Covid-19 crisis has forced great societal changes, including forcing many to work from home (WFH) in an effort to limit the spread of the disease. The ability to work from home has long been considered a p...

    Authors: Henning Holgersen, Zhiyang Jia and Simen Svenkerud
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2021 55:4
  2. This paper exploits big data on online activity from the job exchange of the German Federal Employment Agency and its internal placement-software to generate measures for search activity of employers and job s...

    Authors: Christian Hutter
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2021 55:1
  3. This paper performs a meta-analysis of 1472 estimates extracted from 199 previous studies to investigate the gender wage gap in China. The results show that, although the gender wage gap in China during the tr...

    Authors: Ichiro Iwasaki and Xinxin Ma
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2020 54:17
  4. This paper assesses the nature and correlation of shocks in Visegrad countries and investigates the role of labour mobility in the process of adjustment to the effects of asymmetric shocks. Structural vector a...

    Authors: Dennis Nchor
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2020 54:16
  5. Starting a business is one way out of unemployment for many people. Having a small pool of job applicants may, however, affect the quality of manpower available to employers. This paper reports the results of ...

    Authors: Mark Granberg, Niklas Ottosson and Ali Ahmed
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2020 54:15
  6. The Sample of Integrated Welfare Benefit Biographies (SIG) is a new administrative longitudinal microdata set representative of recipients of Germany’s main welfare programme, the Unemployment Benefit II (UB II,

    Authors: Kerstin Bruckmeier, Sandra Dummert, Philipp Grunau, Katrin Hohmeyer and Torsten Lietzmann
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2020 54:14
  7. This article provides an overview of the IAB Job Vacancy Survey and its research potential. The IAB Job Vacancy Survey is a quarterly establishment survey covering the (un-)satisfied labor demand in Germany. T...

    Authors: Mario Bossler, Nicole Gürtzgen, Alexander Kubis, Benjamin Küfner and Benjamin Lochner
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2020 54:13
  8. In a Public Employment Service reform implemented in 2013, sixty Finnish municipalities experienced an involuntary employment office closure. The Government’s objective was to replace traditional face-to-face ...

    Authors: Ville Vehkasalo
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2020 54:11
  9. Preparing the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) for scientific analysis is a complicated and error-prone task. This paper elaborates on the steps necessary to prepare the SIAB and provides ...

    Authors: Wolfgang Dauth and Johann Eppelsheimer
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2020 54:10
  10. This study analyzes the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows on the employment and wages of low- and high-skilled employees in the manufacture and service sectors in Mexico. The study implements a...

    Authors: Eduardo Saucedo, Teofilo Ozuna Jr. and Hector Zamora
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2020 54:9
  11. In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria using the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions 2011 dataset (EU-SILC 2011). Starting point of th...

    Authors: Daniel Reiter, Mario Thomas Palz and Margareta Kreimer
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2020 54:6
  12. Prejudices against the unemployed pose an enormous threat to their self-confidence and can make it difficult for them to re-enter the labour market, resulting in further long-term unemployment. Given these hig...

    Authors: Christiane Gross, Thomas Gurr, Monika Jungbauer-Gans and Sebastian Lang
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2020 54:3
  13. We study the behavior of female labor force participation (LFP) over the business cycle by estimating fixed effects models at the country and population-group level, using data from harmonized national househo...

    Authors: Joaquín Serrano, Leonardo Gasparini, Mariana Marchionni and Pablo Glüzmann
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2019 53:13
  14. We analyse the use of active labour market policy (ALMP) measures by Luxembourg firms during the years of economic and financial crisis (2008–2009) and the subsequent European sovereign debt crisis (2010–2013)...

    Authors: Konstantinos Efstathiou, Thomas Y. Mathä, Cindy Veiga and Ladislav Wintr
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2019 53:12
  15. Studies show that the unemployed face serious disadvantages in the labour market and that the social stigma of unemployment is one explanation. In this paper, we focus on the unemployed’s expectations of being...

    Authors: Gerhard Krug, Katrin Drasch and Monika Jungbauer-Gans
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2019 53:11
  16. We investigate the long term employment outcomes of Italian injured workers over a time period when the country introduced policy reforms that increased labor market flexibility but reduced job security. Using...

    Authors: Monica Galizzi, Roberto Leombruni and Lia Pacelli
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2019 53:9
  17. This study investigates the effect of broadband internet availability on German establishments’ employment growth. The database used is a random sample of business establishments, augmented by the local availa...

    Authors: Bastian Stockinger
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2019 53:7
  18. Data on tool use from O*Net’s Tools and Technologies Supplement can, in conjunction with task-based measures, provide a new proxy for measuring and distinguishing general and specific skills at the occupationa...

    Authors: Cindy M. Cunningham and Robert D. Mohr
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2019 53:6
  19. This study aims to resolve Korea’s youth unemployment problem by analyzing the exit duration and unemployment determinants for college graduates in Korea. More specifically, it identifies the factors that impr...

    Authors: Jung-Yon Lim and Young-Min Lee
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2019 53:5
  20. Since the beginning of the recession period in Europe, unemployment has greatly affected the young adult population. In this context, Spain is regarded as an extreme case, due to its exceptionally high youth u...

    Authors: Joan Miquel Verd, Oriol Barranco and Mireia Bolíbar
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2019 53:4
  21. The labour market effects of foreign direct investments (FDI) are a topic of constant interest. However, research progress is hindered as most datasets applied in research on this topic suffer from selectivity...

    Authors: Veronika Hecht, Nicole Litzel and Johannes Schäffler
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2019 53:2
  22. Using the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey between 2000 and 2013, we investigate the heterogeneity in labour demand within the industrial sector based on the elasticities. We find that long-run own-price,...

    Authors: Luis E. Arango, Francesca Castellani and Nataly Obando
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2019 53:1
  23. In many advanced welfare states, welfare recipients often receive benefits for long periods. This persistence of welfare receipt can be caused by two distinct mechanisms: genuine or spurious state dependence. ...

    Authors: Kerstin Bruckmeier, Katrin Hohmeyer and Stefan Schwarz
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2018 52:16
  24. Previous comparative research has uncovered considerable cross-country differences in occupational gender segregation. There is, however, a lack of research on the role of educational systems in the creation o...

    Authors: Melina Heiniger and Christian Imdorf
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2018 52:15
  25. We analyse the use of short-time work (STW) by Luxembourg firms during the years of economic and financial crisis (2008–2009) and the subsequent European sovereign debt crisis (2010–2013). The economic and fin...

    Authors: Konstantinos Efstathiou, Thomas Y. Mathä, Cindy Veiga and Ladislav Wintr
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2018 52:14
  26. In this paper, we decompose worldwide PISA mathematics and reading scores. While mathematics scores are still tilted towards boys, girls have a larger advantage in reading over boys. Girls’ disadvantage in mat...

    Authors: Farzana Munir and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2018 52:12
  27. The German workfare scheme ‘One-Euro-Jobs’, which provides additional jobs of public interest for welfare recipients, has a number of different goals. On the one hand, One-Euro-Jobs are intended to increase th...

    Authors: Katrin Hohmeyer and Joachim Wolff
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2018 52:11
  28. This paper studies the contribution of different skill groups to the polarisation of the UK labour market. We show that the large increase in graduate numbers contributed to the substantial reallocation of emp...

    Authors: Andrea Salvatori
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2018 52:8
  29. We ask how employers contribute to unemployment scarring in the recruitment process in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. By drawing on recruitment theories, we aim to better understand how recruiters as...

    Authors: Lulu P. Shi, Christian Imdorf, Robin Samuel and Stefan Sacchi
    Citation: Journal for Labour Market Research 2018 52:7

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