We provide comprehensive evidence on the consequences of automation and offshoreability on the career of unemployed workers and the role of public policies. Using almost two decades of administrative data for Austria, we find that risk of automation is reducing the job finding probability; a...

Den Ausgangspunkt dieser Studie bildet die empirisch belegbare Beobachtung grundlegender Unterschiede bei der Entwicklung der Arbeitsmärkte – insbesondere der Arbeitslosigkeit – in den USA im Vergleich zu Deutschland. Zur Erklärung dieser Diskrepanz liegt eine kaum überschaubare Fülle...

Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction – Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR – TUP) programme of BRAC, we investigate whether a one-off transfer of livestock assets improves well-being of the very poor women in Bangladesh....