Older people in developed countries are living longer and healthier lives. A prolonged and healthy mature period of life is often associated with continued and active participation in the labor market. At the same time, active grandparents can offer their working offspring a free, flexible, and...

Neither public opinion nor evidence-based research supports the claim of some politicias and the media that immigrants take the jobs of native-born workers. Public opinion polls in six migrant-destination countries after the 2008–2009 recession show that most people believe that immigrants...

This article highlights the potentials for migration research using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), a longitudinal panel dataset of private households in Germany running since 1984. We provide a concise overview of its basic features, describe the survey contents and research...

We provide a concise introduction to a household-panel data infrastructure that provides the international research community with longitudinal data of private households in Germany since 1984: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We demonstrate the comparative strength of the SOEP data in...

Before the great recession of 2008–2009, the “flexicurity” model (with flexibility for firms to adjust their labor force along with income security for workers through the social safety net) attracted attention for its ability to deliver low unemployment. But how did it fare during the...

In diesem Beitrag werden die sich längerfristig verstärkenden Ungleichgewichte auf dem Pflegearbeitsmarkt untersucht. Ausgehend von der starken Bevölkerungsalterung in den nächsten Jahrzehnten wird zunächst nach den Konsequenzen der Alterung für die künftige Zahl von Pflegebedürftigen...

Die Hartz-IV-Reformen werden immer wieder als deutsches Erfolgsmodell zur Senkung der Arbeitslosigkeit angeführt. Ist es daher sinnvoll, anderen Ländern der Währungsunion zu empfehlen, ähnliche Reformen durchzuführen? Peter Bofinger verneint das entschieden, da der Rückgang der...

Why do different population groups (e.g. rural vs. urban, youth vs. elderly and men vs. women) experience the same objective labor status differently? One hypothesis is that people are more concerned with relative deprivation than objective deprivation and they value their own status relative to...

Im Rahmen dieses Beitrages gehen wir der Frage nach, inwiefern Crowdsourcing von Betrieben, bei denen ein Teil der Arbeitstätigkeiten einer Wertschöpfungskette über digitale Plattformen ausgelagert wird, Änderungen im Ungleichheitsgefüge des Beschäftigungssystems mit sich bringt. Bei...

Universities, enterprises, and students are the key subjects in the talent training system of Big Data. This study used text mining, interviews, questionnaires, and other methods to analyze the characteristics and deficiencies of Chinese universities in the training of Big Data talents, the...