How pervasive is labor market discrimination against immigrants and what options do policymakers and migrants have to reduce it? To answer these questions, we conducted a field experiment on employer discrimination in Sweden. Going beyond existing work, we test for a large range of applicant...

We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from the Labour Force Survey between 1993 and 2002. Immigrants who arrived to enter the labour market are distinguished from those who arrived to complete their education. Diverse...

Nearly half of U.S. employers test job applicants and workers for drugs. I use variation in the timing and nature of drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing,...

Can a company attract a different type of employee by changing its compensation scheme? Is it sufficient to pay more to increase employees’ motivation? Should a firm provide evaluation feedback to employees based on their absolute or their relative performance? Laboratory experiments can help...

During the recession of 2008-09 Germany experienced a huge decrease in GDP. Employment, however, remained surprisingly stable. The so-called German labor market miracle is often ascribed to the intensive usage of short-time work. Despite the resurgence of this instrument, little is known about...

This article introduces the German job vacancy survey (EGS). Its data are valuable because employers' recruitment processes and decisions are little-noticed through the empirical literature on matching processes on the labour market. This is due to the fact that administrative data on job...

Das Diskussionspapier greift die problematische Datenerfassung der Freien Berufe im Sozio-ökonomischen Panel (SOEP) auf. Im Mittelpunkt stehen sogenannte kritische Wechsel zwischen freiberuflichen und selbständigen Tätigkeiten innerhalb der Selbständigen-Gruppe des SOEP. Forschungsziel...

This paper examines the question, whether the growing use of new technologies and decentralized forms of work organization affects the age structure of workforces within firms. The initial idea behind this relationship is that technological and organizational change may not only be skill-biased,...

Das ifo Institut befragt im Auftrag der Randstad Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG viermal im Jahr Personalleiter aus unterschiedlichen Wirtschaftsbereichen nach der Bedeutung verschiedener Flexibilisierungsinstrumente im Personaleinsatz, wie etwa Zeitarbeit, Überstunden oder freie Mitarbeit. Zudem...