Employment responses to the COVID-19 crisis differed widely across German local labour markets at the beginning of the pandemic, with differences in short-time work rates of up to 20 percentage points. We show that digital capital, and to a lesser extent working-from-home, were essential for the...

Official statistics indicated a break in Okun's law in all the Spanish regions due to the COVID-19 pandemic; however, herein, evidence of the validity of the law is shown. The temporary layoff procedures (ERTE) allowed many workers to maintain their jobs. From the productive point of view, the...

The present research provides evidence on the determinants driving the differences in the unemployment-output relationship in Spanish regions. We followed a two-step approach. First, we estimated a set of time-varying Okun’s coefficients (rolling-window) for the autonomous communities in Spain...

The relationship between the labor force participation and the business cycle has become a topic in the economic literature. However, few studies have considered whether the cyclical sensitivity of the labor force participation is influenced by “social effects”. In this paper, we construct a...

This paper shows, using data from both the US and the UK, that average plant size is larger in denser markets. However, many popular theories of agglomeration – spillovers, cost advantages and improved match quality – predict that establishments should be smaller in cities. The paper...

Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative behaviour. However, little evidence has been collected on the link between these measures. In this paper, we use data from the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) combined with data from...

Gegenwärtig werden viele Vorschläge diskutiert, das Arbeitslosengeld II (»Hartz IV«) zu reformieren: Die Bezugsdauer des Arbeitslosengeldes I könnte verlängert werden, man könnte die Zuverdienstmöglichkeiten ausweiten oder Hartz IV sogar komplett durch ein Bürgergeld ersetzen. Wie sind...

This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates for six selected countries in Latin America at both aggregate and gender-disaggregated levels. Cointegration analysis focused on the study of time series is used to validate...

Im Auftrag der Unabhängigen Kommission »Zuwanderung« des Bundesministeriums des Inneren schätzte das ifo Institut den Fachkräftebedarf in Deutschland bis zum Jahr 2015. Im Rahmen einer Status-quo-Projektion wurden zu erwartende Mismatchsituationen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt aufgezeigt und...

Zum 1. Januar dieses Jahres wurde mit dem in Kraft getretenen so genannten Job-AQTIV-Gesetz das Arbeitsförderungsrecht reformiert. Gerd Andres, Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales, stellt in seinem Beitrag die Prinzipien des Reformprojektes vor. Dr. Stephan Articus, Deutscher Städtetag,...