Colombia has experienced a secular increase in the labor participation of urban women, going from nearly 47% in 1984 to 65% in 2006. We decompose the evolution of participation into changes in the composition of the population and changes in the participation rates by groups (defined according...

Der Artikel stellt die vorläufigen Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojekts "Employer Branding deutscher Arbeitgeber zur Gewinnung hochqualifizierter Geflüchteten aus der Ukraine" vor. Untersucht werden Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen für Beschäftigung ukrainischer Flüchtlinge, die nach...

The Lanham Act was a federal infrastructure bill passed by Congress in 1940 and eventually used to fund programs for the preschool and school-aged children of working women during WWII. It remains, to this day, the only example in US history of an (almost) universal, largely federally-supported...

To support the continued expansion of their operations, microfinance institutions (MFIs) worldwide rely heavily on debt, which exposes them to bankruptcy risk. This underscores the need for prudent selection of debt instruments by MFIs. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the possible...

Der Artikel stellt die vorläufigen Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojekts "Employer Branding deutscher Arbeitgeber zur Gewinnung hochqualifizierter Geflüchteten aus der Ukraine" vor. Untersucht werden Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen für Beschäftigung ukrainischer Flüchtlinge, die nach...

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie ist die Aktualisierung der IW-Arbeitsmarktfortschreibung mit den neuesten verfügbaren Daten bis zum Jahr 2022 auf Basis der Methodik von Burstedde (2023). Die Fortschreibung zeigt auf, wie sich Beschäftigung und Fachkräftelücke in den fünf Jahren bis 2027...

This paper investigates how labor-market tightness affects market outcomes if firms use informal, self-enforcing, agreements to motivate workers. We characterize profit-maximizing equilibria and show that an increase in the supply of homogenous workers can increase wages. Moreover, even though...

This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare 2017 to 2023 using regression-adjusted wages to make sure changes in composition of the workforce do not influence our estimates. The research period has been characterised by...

It is well-known that unemployment leaves scars after re-employment, but does this scarring effect persist even after retirement? We analyse European data on retirees from the SHARE panel, and show that the well-being of the retired continues to reflect the unemployment that they experienced...

This paper investigates how labor-market tightness affects market outcomes if firms use informal, self-enforcing, agreements to motivate workers. We characterize profit-maximizing equilibria and show that an increase in the supply of homogenous workers can increase wages. Moreover, even though...