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...

We use Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey to explore the labor market impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Specifically, we adopt a unique identification strategy to examine the heterogeneous causal effects of the COVID-19 economic shutdown by governments on hours worked across the...

Erwartungsgemäß reagieren die Unternehmen auf den plötzlichen Rückgang ihrer Arbeitskräftenachfrage im Zuge der Corona-Pandemie mit einer abgestuften Maßnahmenkette. Stark rückläufig sind die Einstellungen, sodass Arbeitsuchende derzeit nur schwer einen Zugang in den Arbeitsmarkt finden....