Economists increasingly refer to monopsony power to reconcile the absence of negativeemployment effects of minimum wages with theory. However, systematic evidence for themonopsony argument is scarce. In this paper, I perform a comprehensive test of monop-sony theory by using 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 shocks, minimum wages, and collective wage agreements on the labor market. I carry out a comprehensive meta-analysis to shed light on the nature of...

Economists increasingly refer to monopsony power to reconcile the absence of negative employment effects of minimum wages with theory. However, systematic evidence for the monopsony argument is scarce. In this paper, I perform a comprehensive test of this argument by using labor market...

In recent decades, many industrialized economies have witnessed a pattern of job polarization. While shifts in labor demand, namely routinization or offshoring, constitute conventional explanations for job polarization, there is little research on whether shifts in labor supply along the labor...

We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job security. We leverage rich administrative linked employer-employee data from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain in the 2010s to provide the first comparable...

In recent decades, many industrialized economies have witnessed a pattern of job polarization. While shifts in labor demand, namely routinization or offshoring, constitute conventional explanations for job polarization, there is little research on whether shifts in labor supply along the labor...

The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...

Die Covid-19-Pandemie und die zu ihrer Eindämmung umgesetzten Maßnahmen treffen den Arbeitsmarkt erheblich. Eine Simulationsstudie des IAB und des ifo Instituts zeigt: Die Bruttoerwerbseinkommen dürften sich in diesem Jahr infolge der Covid-19-Krise für alle Einkommensgruppen spürbar...

"Während der Covid-19-Pandemie ist in Deutschland die Zahl der Langzeitarbeitslosen, also der Personen mit einer Arbeitslosigkeit von mindestens einem Jahr, zum ersten Mal seit 2014 wieder gestiegen. Für langzeitarbeitslose Personen gestaltet sich die Aufnahme einer Beschäftigung besonders...