We estimate the dynamic effects of a high-frequency identified unionwide quantitative easing (QE) shock on real GDP, inflation and unemployment in all euro area countries. We document that the effects of QE are very heterogenous across countries as regards size, significance and timing,...

We examine the labor supply effects of short-term income transfers for families experiencing a housing crisis. We link callers of an emergency assistance homelessness prevention hotline to their federal tax records and measure their employment & earnings in years surrounding their calls. Our...

U.S. employers and the federal government devote over 1.5% of GDP annually toward promoting defined contribution (DC) retirement saving. Using a new employer-employee linked dataset covering millions of Americans, we show that this system of saving incentives benefits White workers and those...

Wesentliches Ziel des seit 1995 rechtsgültigen GATS-Vertrages (General Agreement on Trade in Services) ist die 'fortschreitende Liberalisierung' sämtlicher Dienstleistungsmärkte. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, wird seit 2000 eine weitere Liberalisierung verhandelt. Die vorliegende Studie lotet...

Im Zusammenhang mit der Öffnung der Arbeitsmärkte nach Mittel- und Osteuropa und der EU-Osterweiterung setzen sich seit einigen Jahren verstärkt neue Formen der Arbeitsmigration durch: die Entsendung von Arbeitnehmern aus MOE-Ländern, die auf Basis von Werkverträgen Dienstleistungen in...

Das deutsche Arbeitsrecht enthält Regelungen über Mindeststandards, die nicht zuletzt einer Unterbindung transnationaler Lohnkonkurrenz dienen sollen. Einige dieser Regelungen (ArbZG, AÜG, AVE-Tarifnormen) können jedoch durch tarifliche Regelungen unterboten werden. Von anderen Regelungen...

Guest-worker programs have been providing rapidly growing economies with millions of temporary foreign workers over the last couple of decades. With the duration of stay strictly limited by program rules in most of the host countries and wages paid to guest workers often set at sub-market...

The paper characterizes how international labor migration became an enduring feature in the country's development. It presents data on the flow of temporary and permanent international migrant workers in the last thirty years. Characteristics such as destination, occupation, education, sex, and...

This paper discusses public and private institutions that were established in the Philippines to provide services to Filipino international migrant workers. Thirty years of having explicit policy on international labor migration has resulted to the creation of various public agencies to promote,...