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The importance of extracurricular activities at school for future managers
School closures and effective in-person learning during Covid-19: When, where, and for whom
Cutting back on work during Covid: How was it done?
A persistent casualty of Covid-19: Children’s skill development
Digital payments surged during Covid-19 in the developing world. What are the opportunities for workers?
Labor markets in low-income countries: Challenges and opportunities
Who benefits when migrants return to developing countries?
How do widespread shocks affect people’s desires to redistribute income?
Employer market power in Silicon Valley
Microfinance and rural non-farm employment in developing countries during the Covid-19 crisis
How do labor market institutions affect job creation and productivity growth?
Can market mechanisms solve refugee crises?
Saving the planet and creating jobs
Masking, Covid-19, and social identity
Does health professionalism among bureaucrats help weather the Covid-19 pandemic?
Solving pension crises
Emigration and the wages of those who stay behind
The shadow economy and the Covid-19 pandemic crisis
How to support the self-employed in developing countries
Substance use and academic performance
Pandemics and the prospects for higher education in developing countries
The challenges of regulating the labor market in developing countries
What economic value is there in speaking another language?: An interview with Gilles Grenier
Household production, what is it and how do we value it?: An interview with Leslie S. Stratton
Low pay jobs, do they “scar” future job prospects?: An interview with Claus Schnabel
Tutoring: An effective solution to help disadvantaged children
The challenging plight of widows
International trade restrictions and the impact on GDP: An interview with L. Alan Winters
Job search during a pandemic recession
What does the Covid-19 R&D response tell us about innovation?
Helping the poor to comply with social distancing
Lifestyle and mental health disruptions during Covid-19
Does Covid-19 make us more averse to inequality?
Covid-19’s impacts on the US labor market
The impact of Covid-19 on the life insurance market was minimal
Labor issues in the Biden administration
Exposure to epidemics and trust in scientists
Measuring the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on domestic violence
Assessing the effect of online instruction on university students’ learning
Sexual harassment in the post-Covid-19 work environment
Covid-19 and fertility
Pandemic meets pollution: The role of air quality for Covid-19
How to play it safe? The gender gap in aversion to Covid-19 exposure
How was the US presidential election affected by the Covid-19 pandemic?
The impact of a Covid-19 lockdown on happiness
The impact of Covid-19 restrictions on small businesses in the US
What are lockdowns good for?
Labor issues in the US election
Covid-19 and US attitudes toward government and markets
Forgotten numbers: Non-fatal Covid-19 infections in the US
Excess deaths in care homes during the pandemic
Human mobility during the pandemic: Policy or information?
Economic effects of Covid-19: The importance of credit constraints
All in this together?: Inequality during Covid-19
Cognitive performance in the home office—What professional chess can tell us
Covid-19 shutdowns and the self-employed
Racial and ethnic disparities in the face of the coronavirus
The power of social capital during a pandemic
Does policy communication during Covid-19 work?
Behavior during a pandemic
University educated workers and their ability to deal with Covid-19 and future shocks
Four mistaken theses about universal basic incomes
Elections and the Covid-19 pandemic
Covid-19 and giving to charity
Lockdowns and traffic accidents
Effects of Covid-19 on spending and saving
Labor markets in the Covid-19 pandemic: Western Europe and the US
Can sports offer an insight into the future of the labor market?
Childcare during Covid-19
Can defined contribution pension plans reduce worker mobility?
Covid-19’s impact on the economy: Measuring GDP during a pandemic
So happy together?
Covid-19 and immigrant employment
Graduating during the Covid-19 recession
How can governments mitigate the global decline in labor income share?
The Covid-19 crisis exacerbates workplace injustices
Can inflation be accurately measured during a lockdown?
Measuring employment and unemployment—Primer and predictions
What is happening to unemployment in the post-Covid-19 labor market?
The CARES Act—Massive government intervention in the economic crisis
What are the challenges in using language proficiency to predict the economic integration of immigrants?
200 billion hours to spend: The Covid-19 opportunity to upskill
Did California’s shelter-in-place order work? Early coronavirus-related public health effects
Labor markets during the Covid-19 crisis: A preliminary view
Trends in Covid-19 infection: What New York City neighborhoods tell us
Trading off lives for jobs
Mitigating the work–safety trade-off
The sudden growth of employee autonomy during the coronavirus lockdown
Economic implications of postponing the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Korea: A paragon of dealing with coronavirus
The coronavirus crisis and the next generation
Expectations about Covid-19 social-distancing measures in Italy and their impact on compliance
Coronavirus, telecommuting, and the labor market
The long-term consequences of missing a term of school
Health effects of the coronavirus recession
Pricing the lives saved by coronavirus policies
Pandemics and the labor market—Then and now
Fighting a coronavirus recession
Can financial education help workers save for retirement?
Coronavirus and the labor market
Is putting children in childcare good for them?
Is firms’ productivity affected by accession to the EU?
Is a highly educated workforce good for less educated workers?
What works for women’s work in low- and middle-income countries?
How much do children cost?
Do overtime hours and pay regulations promote wage and employment growth?
Should governments intervene in the assimilation of immigrants?
Self-checkout and Neo-Luddism
Is CEO pay economically justified?
Gender quotas for the board room?
Does studying abroad enhance employment opportunities?
How will climate change affect what we do?
Can we use trade policy to achieve gender equality?
Low social mobility in Latin America may hinder economic growth
Making teacher certification work for developing countries
New European Parliament and Commission for a more ambitious framework for social and employment policies
Labor market issues in India’s parliamentary elections 2019
When is the right time to start tracking students?
The economic consequences of secularization
Labor issues in the 2019 Australian election
Parental leave policies as good HR practices
Does government spending crowd out charitable behavior?
Why the sudden interest in employee ownership?
Will punishing the unemployed cure unemployment?
Immigrant entrepreneurship: The evidence so far
Labor issues in the 2018 US election
A data tax for a digital economy
Working in family firms
Should genetics shape policy?
Minimum wages hurt young people
Workplace sickness absence
Should divorce be cheap and easy?
Income inequality and social origins
Integrating refugees into the labor market
Disability and labor market disadvantage
Self-inflicted wounds of closed borders
What do we know about female criminality and how to control it?
Should policymakers worry about a declining female labor force participation rate?
The importance of appropriate tools for evaluating labor market reforms: The case of Italy
Does an increase in imports improve the well-being of poorer individuals?
Why does poverty persist across the generations?
Are happy workers more productive?
Can universal preschool increase the labor supply of mothers?
Can jobs reduce recidivism?
Does increasing the minimum wage reduce poverty in developing countries?
Wage subsidies may not help to increase employment among older workers
Labor market issues in the German election
How candidates’ looks affect their election chances
The impact of repealing “Obamacare” on children’s academic performance
Gender diversity in teams
The unhappiness of the US working class
Refugee resettlement in the EU
Public versus private job placement services
Environmental regulations and business decisions
Labor market issues in the 2017 French presidential election
Immigration and native workers' health
Not bad at all—the true state of the US labor market
Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap
Reducing unemployment is always on the government agenda
Do/can firms benefit from training apprentices?
If 2016 was the year of political earthquakes, then what might the rest of 2017 bring?
Designing social protection for women
Green energy and jobs
The union wage premium: Is it real?
Job insecurity is bad for our health
Political participation in a digital economy
Brexit and the American election
Are smaller classes better?
What can be done to reduce workplace sexual harassment?
Internal hiring vs external recruitment?
Do employees profit from profit sharing?
How much do we work?
Does performance-related pay improve productivity?
Impatience, schooling, and happiness
How can knowledge and new ideas be turned into jobs?
Are home births safe for everyone?
Does having a child in your teens change your economic future?
Weighing more and earning less: The hidden individual costs of obesity
Brexit: Implications for UK labor
Brexit: An American politico-economic view
The return on investment on migration: What’s in it for business?
A rural-urban political divide: Is it caused by labor-market outcomes?
Incentives for prosocial activities—Do they work?
How might self-driving cars change the lives of workers?
International Workers' Day, 2016
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The immigration jump: Are more immigrants good for the economy?
A note from the new Editor-in-Chief, Professor Daniel Hamermesh
Three reasons immigrants are valuable for the host country
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Does education prepare you for working life?
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5 reasons why immigrants do not take natives' jobs
6 key points on European youth unemployment
Let the children play
What if there were no national borders?
It pays to be beautiful: Investments in appearance lead to success in the workplace
We can't blame the loss of mid-level jobs purely on robots
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Panel discussion on the impact of Covid-19 and today's labor market in Europe and the U.S.
IZA World of Labor Panel discussion on inequality, unemployment, wage setting and inflation
IZA World of Labor Panel Discussion on Women in Leadership
Nina Smith on the gender pay gap: An interview with with Daniel S. Hamermesh
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Gender discrimination and sexual harassment: A discussion with Joni Hersch
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The gender pay gap: Solomon W. Polachek in conversation with Daniel S. Hamermesh
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Watch exclusive video from conferences, debates and other events on labor market economics as well as reading the latest opinion pieces from IZA World of Labor authors.
The importance of extracurricular activities at school for future managers
Building the deepest talent pool possible requires societies to provide access to both quality formal education and to extracurricular activities.
School closures and effective in-person learning during Covid-19: When, where, and for whom
Differences in effective in-person learning during the pandemic disproportionately disadvantaged minority school districts.
Cutting back on work during Covid: How was it done?
Workers and employers have learned about the gains to working on fewer days, and it’s likely that the pandemic has caused a permanent shift to more four-day work schedules.
A persistent casualty of Covid-19: Children’s skill development
In the long term, children may well be the ones who suffer the most from the pandemic's consequences.
Panel discussion on the impact of Covid-19 and today's labor market in Europe and the U.S.
IZA World of Labor Panel discussion on the impact of Covid-19 and today's labor market in Europe and the U.S.: Daniel S. Hamermesh in conversation with Michael C. Burda from Humboldt University, Pierre Cahuc from Sciences Po and Harry J. Holzer from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University
Discussion questions:
- How has the Covid pandemic contributed to the sharp decline in labor-force participation in the developed world? Why are people choosing not to work, or to work less, compared to pre-Covid?
- In Europe the labor force participation rate (the fraction of people working or looking for work) has already risen to pre-pandemic levels whereas in the U.S. it is still about 1.5% (3 million workers below where it was). Why is that?
- If labor is so scarce currently, why aren’t real wages rising more rapidly?
- How has the Covid pandemic contributed to the remarkable acceleration of inflation in the developed world?
- Are you worried about the impact on unemployment of government effort to combat inflation? If so, why? If not, why not? In the last 70 years, at what point was the macro-labor market (or was most like) what it was today?
Read related IZA World of Labor content:
- Covid-19—Pandemics and the labor market
- National responses to Covid-19:
IZA World of Labor Panel discussion on inequality, unemployment, wage setting and inflation
IZA World of Labor Panel discussion on inequality, unemployment, wage setting and inflation with Richard Rogerson, Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and Josef Zweimüller, Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich
Discussion questions:
- What do your findings about differences in inequality of earnings within occupations imply about such macroeconomic outcomes as unemployment and inflation?
- We know that it becomes more difficult for workers to leave unemployment the longer they have been unemployed. Is this because the very fact of having been unemployed longer signals employers that the worker is lazy or is it just that longer-term unemployed workers reduce their efforts to find work?
- What is this distinction between dynamic selection and negative duration dependence? Tell us about the role of subsidies for unemployed people to either be hired or to get off the roles faster – a number of countries do things like this. Does the answer depend upon which of these two phenomenon is going on?
- The world is currently facing fairly rapid inflation along with rapidly dropping unemployment rates. Is this a standard cyclical phenomenon, or is this something new? Are there any historical precedents for this?
Read related IZA World of Labor content:
- Todd Sorensen’s article Do firms’ wage-setting powers increase during recessions?
- Edward P. Lazear’s article Structural or cyclic? Labor markets in recessions
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IZA World of Labor Panel Discussion on Women in Leadership
IZA World of Labor Panel Discussion on Women in Leadership with Astrid Kunze from the Norwegian School of Economics, Joanne Tan from the Singapore Management University and Zoe B. Cullen from the Harvard Business School
Discussion questions:
- What are your predictions: By the year 2050, will there be equality in the corporate leadership in Western countries and perhaps in Asian countries?
- In Norway, Germany, and to a much lesser extent the US, have substantial parental leave policies. If we expanded that further – made it longer-term, increased the pay – would that solve the glass ceiling problem? Or to what extent would it reduce it? Astrid Kunze has looked at parental leave from short to long-term. What are the efficiency effects of this on the bottom line for corporations? What argument is there for extending parental leave?
- Would changing corporate culture help? Does transparency in knowing how much female’s managers earn encourage women to ask for a raise?
- Is it a good side of the Covid-19 crisis that people are not going into the office since male managers are more likely to spend more with male colleagues relative to female colleagues? How does one intervene to disrupt such a dynamic?
- Would quotas on boards of directors solve the problem? What are the efficiency effects of this on the bottom line for corporations?
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Nina Smith on the gender pay gap: An interview with with Daniel S. Hamermesh
Nina Smith on the gender pay gap: An interview with with Daniel S. Hamermesh
Some of the questions include:
What causes the gender pay gap in Europe?
In most Western countries, looking at time-use data, men are doing more household work, women are doing somewhat less. There should have been some change because of the changing nature of the intra-household bargain but you are saying there isn’t?
To what extent is it the fact that the woman, rightly or wrongly, is viewed as the manager of the household?
So, if the child is sick, it is assumed that the woman disrupts her day to take care of the child? Even if it is not a long time, the uncertainty about time at the workplace has an overwhelming effect on an employer’s interest in paying and employing women, is that true?
What is your opinion on gender quotas and corporate quotas?
Is it possible that gender quotas are a way to help better-off women to do better?
What can we do to reduce the gender-wage gap? Do any countries require that the father takes at least a third of the parenting quota?
In 2050, will the gender pay gap be reduced? Will there be more equality, in your opinion, in household behaviour – e.g. taking care of children?
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