Gender Pay Gap in the United Kingdom and in Germany
The 8th of March marks the annual International Women’s Day. Wages are an important factor in driving gender parity. In a video interview Professor…
Interviews
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“Eroding trust in the state and in frontline workers can become a catalyst for the rise of populism”
Professor Gabriela Spanghero Lotta explores the dynamics of citizen-state interactions in Latin America, outlines the role of frontline workers in…
“Not recognizing climate change related mobility will not obliterate it, but likely lead to more clandestine mobility”
Professor Filiz Garip from Princeton University talks in this interview about climate change, migration, and inequality.
“The first six months expenditure for the Australian JobKeeper scheme lifted total national government expenditure by one quarter”
During the Covid-19-crisis Australia quickly introduced the “JobKeeper scheme” – a large scale and easy to implement wage subsidy program…
“Eviction creates Poverty”
In an interview Matthew Desmond, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, gives insights into the situation of renters in the US, shows the…
Alan Manning: “It is important to have institutions such as the minimum wage to adress the market power of employers”
Professor Alan Manning, one of the world’s most renowned labour market economists, explains in this video-statement the basic idea of imperfect…
Consequences of the COVID-19 PandemicInternational perspectives on applying short-time work during the Covid-19 crisis
“At the peak, 40 percent of the French labour force were on short-time work”
In France, just like in many other European countries, short-time work has proved to be a powerful tool to prevent massive layoffs during the…
“Over one million temporary workers lost their jobs at the beginning of the pandemic, as companies preferred not to include them in short-time work schemes”
Spain used a short-time work scheme called “Expediente Temporal de Regulación de Empleo” during the Covid-19 crisis. In this interview, Marcel…
ELMI: “Exchange often brings about entirely different ideas and projects one has not thought about before”
In the autumn of 2022, eleven European institutes for labour research established the “Network of European Labour Market Research Institutes” (ELMI).…
Consequences of the COVID-19 PandemicInternational perspectives on applying short-time work during the Covid-19 crisis
“Extended coverage and benefit duration boosted the role of short-time work in Italy during the Covid-19 crisis”
In many European countries, short-time work proved to be a strong measure to combat massive layoffs during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the case of…
“Refugees from Ukraine face considerable uncertainty about their future”
More than one million people have fled Ukraine to find refuge in Germany. But how are they doing in the meantime? Between August and October 2022,…
Consequences of the COVID-19 PandemicInternational perspectives on applying short-time work during the Covid-19 crisis
“Short-time work proved to be a highly effective instrument in times of crisis.”
In Germany, short-time work has played a crucial role in stabilising the labour market both in the financial and the coronavirus crisis. At the same…