The economic crisis affected the size and quality of employment in most economic and social activities, but in different proportions. The health care sector faced a lower dynamics of employment diminution, but the personnel flows to better paid jobs continued at a higher rate than before the...

The economic crisis affected the size and quality of employment in most economic and social activities, but in different proportions. The health care sector faced a lower dynamics of employment diminution, but the personnel flows to better paid jobs continued at a higher rate than before the...

Can governments in developing countries retain skilled health workers by raising public sector wages? We investigate this question using sudden, policy-induced wage variation in which the Government of Ghana restructured the pay scale for health workers employed by the government. We find that a...

In April 2016, Professor Orly Lobel delivered the 12th Annual Pemberton Lecture at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Lobel asks, what is the future of employment and labor law protections when reality is rapidly transforming the ways we work? What is the status of gig work and what are the...

In die deutsche Zuwanderungsdiskussion ist Bewegung gekommen. Es mehren sich die Stimmen, die mit Blick auf den einsetzenden Mangel an Fachkräften in einzelnen Segmenten des Arbeits-marktes für Deutschland die Einführung eines Punktesystems zur Auswahl geeigneter Zuwanderer aus...

Die große Zahl von Flüchtlingen und Asylbewerbern, die aktuell nach Deutschland einreisen, stellt eine erhebliche organisatorische, aber auch gesellschaftspolitische Herausforderung dar. Es ist notwendig, eine sachgerechte Debatte um die bestmögliche Integration der Flüchtlinge in unsere...

In Switzerland a sudden policy uncertainty shock happened in February 2014 with the close and largely unexpected acceptance of a referendum aiming at limiting free movement of persons. The referendum requires Switzerland to reintroduce annual quotas for immigrants within three years. The...

Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, succeeds in selecting economically desirable immigrants and provides orderly management of population growth. But the point system cannot fix short-term skilled labor shortages...

This paper investigates the main determinants of the regional representation of foreign employees in Germany. Since migration determinants are not necessarily the same for workers of different nationalities, we explain spatial patterns not only for total foreign employment but also for the 35...

Turkey hosts the largest population of refugees globally; however, we know little about their labor market outcomes at the national level. We use the 2018 round of the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey, which includes a representative sample of Syrian refugees in Turkey for the first time, to...