This paper examines how college students in the United States altered their college major decisions during the energy boom and bust of the 1970s and 1980s. We focus on petroleum engineering and geology, two majors closely related to the energy industry. We find strong evidence that the energy...

We investigate foreign language skill demand and its determinants with a novel dataset, the Web Intelligence Hub's Online Job Advertisement (OJA) database, with information on about 53 million ads posted in 2021 for jobs in Europe. This unique dataset has been built crawling hundreds of job...

This paper investigates the demand for language skills using data on online job vacancies in 27 European Union member countries and the United Kingdom in 2021. Evidence indicates that although Europe remains a linguistically diverse labour market, knowing English confers unique advantages in...

A rapidly aging population means the Atlantic provinces face the prospect of shrinking workforces as early as 2010. To stem the population pressures of tomorrow, a suite of policies – such as those that boost workforce participation and others that prefund demographically sensitive government...

Trotz Internationalisierung und Globalisierung hat die Bedeutung der Regionen fuer die Wettbewerbsfaehigkeit von Unternehmen und Arbeitskraeften zugenommen. Um die wesentlichen Wettbewerbsfaktoren „funktionsfaehiger regionaler Arbeitsmarkt“ und „effektive regionale Arbeitsmarktpolitik“...

Wie kann eine qualitativ gute Betreuung und Pflege von aelteren Menschen in ihren Haushalten sichergestellt werden? Diese Frage ist in vielen europaeischen Laendern von grosser Bedeutung, da die staatlichen Leistungen oft nicht ausreichen, um den tatsaechlichen Bedarf an haeuslicher Betreuung...

The female labour force participation rate (LFPR) displays a high degree of variation across regions. Our paper contributes to an understanding of regional determinants of female labour supply by looking at Austria’s 121 political districts. As predicted by theory, the aggregate wage level has...