Richard Blundell, of University College London and IZA, explains the importance of labor supply and the role that public policy plays. His IZA World of Labor article specifically looks at the role of tax policy.
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Telework during the Covid-19 pandemic
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The impact of limiting the outsourcing of jobs
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Air pollution and the labor market
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Judging affirmative action
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Working from home around the world
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Job loss during Covid-19 in sub-Saharan Africa
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Pass-through and consumer responses to alcohol tax increases
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Does gender inequality in today’s labor market perpetuate gender inequality in future generations?
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Paying for amenities at work
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Can wage transparency alleviate gender sorting in the labor market?
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Has the willingness to work fallen during the Covid pandemic?
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The recent push toward unionization in the US
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Religious diversity improves trust and performance
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Effects of the Russia-Ukraine crisis on food prices and well-being
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The four-day workweek
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Transgender people face significant economic challenges
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The importance of extracurricular activities at school for future managers
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A persistent casualty of Covid-19: Children’s skill development
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Digital payments surged during Covid-19 in the developing world. What are the opportunities for workers?
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Labor markets in low-income countries: Challenges and opportunities
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Who benefits when migrants return to developing countries?
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How do widespread shocks affect people’s desires to redistribute income?
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Microfinance and rural non-farm employment in developing countries during the Covid-19 crisis
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How do labor market institutions affect job creation and productivity growth?
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Lifestyle and mental health disruptions during Covid-19
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Covid-19’s impacts on the US labor market
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The impact of Covid-19 on the life insurance market was minimal
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Labor issues in the Biden administration
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Exposure to epidemics and trust in scientists
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Measuring the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on domestic violence
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Assessing the effect of online instruction on university students’ learning
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Sexual harassment in the post-Covid-19 work environment
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Covid-19 and fertility
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What are lockdowns good for?
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Labor issues in the US election
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Covid-19 and US attitudes toward government and markets
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Forgotten numbers: Non-fatal Covid-19 infections in the US
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Excess deaths in care homes during the pandemic
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Human mobility during the pandemic: Policy or information?
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Covid-19 shutdowns and the self-employed
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Behavior during a pandemic
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Elections and the Covid-19 pandemic
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Covid-19 and giving to charity
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Effects of Covid-19 on spending and saving
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Childcare during Covid-19
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So happy together?
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Covid-19 and immigrant employment
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Graduating during the Covid-19 recession
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The Covid-19 crisis exacerbates workplace injustices
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Can inflation be accurately measured during a lockdown?
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Measuring employment and unemployment—Primer and predictions
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What is happening to unemployment in the post-Covid-19 labor market?
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The CARES Act—Massive government intervention in the economic crisis
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200 billion hours to spend: The Covid-19 opportunity to upskill
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Did California’s shelter-in-place order work? Early coronavirus-related public health effects
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Labor markets during the Covid-19 crisis: A preliminary view
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Trends in Covid-19 infection: What New York City neighborhoods tell us
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Trading off lives for jobs
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Mitigating the work–safety trade-off
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The sudden growth of employee autonomy during the coronavirus lockdown
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Economic implications of postponing the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
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Korea: A paragon of dealing with coronavirus
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The coronavirus crisis and the next generation
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Expectations about Covid-19 social-distancing measures in Italy and their impact on compliance
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Coronavirus, telecommuting, and the labor market
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The long-term consequences of missing a term of school
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Health effects of the coronavirus recession
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Pricing the lives saved by coronavirus policies
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Pandemics and the labor market—Then and now
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Fighting a coronavirus recession
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Can financial education help workers save for retirement?
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Coronavirus and the labor market
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Is putting children in childcare good for them?
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Is firms’ productivity affected by accession to the EU?
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Is a highly educated workforce good for less educated workers?
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What works for women’s work in low- and middle-income countries?
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How much do children cost?
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Do overtime hours and pay regulations promote wage and employment growth?
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Should governments intervene in the assimilation of immigrants?
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Self-checkout and Neo-Luddism
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Is CEO pay economically justified?
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Gender quotas for the board room?
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Does studying abroad enhance employment opportunities?
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How will climate change affect what we do?
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Can we use trade policy to achieve gender equality?
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Low social mobility in Latin America may hinder economic growth
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When is the right time to start tracking students?
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Labor issues in the 2019 Australian election
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Parental leave policies as good HR practices
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Why the sudden interest in employee ownership?
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Immigrant entrepreneurship: The evidence so far
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Labor issues in the 2018 US election
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A data tax for a digital economy
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Working in family firms
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Should genetics shape policy?
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Minimum wages hurt young people
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Workplace sickness absence
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Should divorce be cheap and easy?
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Income inequality and social origins
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Integrating refugees into the labor market
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Disability and labor market disadvantage
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Self-inflicted wounds of closed borders
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Should policymakers worry about a declining female labor force participation rate?
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The importance of appropriate tools for evaluating labor market reforms: The case of Italy
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Does an increase in imports improve the well-being of poorer individuals?
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Why does poverty persist across the generations?
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Are happy workers more productive?
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Can universal preschool increase the labor supply of mothers?
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Can jobs reduce recidivism?
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Are smaller classes better?
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Does increasing the minimum wage reduce poverty in developing countries?
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Wage subsidies may not help to increase employment among older workers
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Labor market issues in the German election
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How candidates’ looks affect their election chances
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The impact of repealing “Obamacare” on children’s academic performance
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Gender diversity in teams
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The unhappiness of the US working class
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Refugee resettlement in the EU
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Public versus private job placement services
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Environmental regulations and business decisions
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Labor market issues in the 2017 French presidential election
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Immigration and native workers' health
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Not bad at all—the true state of the US labor market
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Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap
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Reducing unemployment is always on the government agenda
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Do/can firms benefit from training apprentices?
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If 2016 was the year of political earthquakes, then what might the rest of 2017 bring?
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Designing social protection for women
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Green energy and jobs
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The union wage premium: Is it real?
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Job insecurity is bad for our health
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Political participation in a digital economy
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What can be done to reduce workplace sexual harassment?
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Internal hiring vs external recruitment?
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Do employees profit from profit sharing?
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How much do we work?
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Does performance-related pay improve productivity?
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6 key points on European youth unemployment
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Impatience, schooling, and happiness
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Weighing more and earning less: The hidden individual costs of obesity
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Brexit: Implications for UK labor
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Brexit: An American politico-economic view
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The return on investment on migration: What’s in it for business?
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A rural-urban political divide: Is it caused by labor-market outcomes?
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Incentives for prosocial activities—Do they work?
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How might self-driving cars change the lives of workers?
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Can market mechanisms help solve the refugee crisis?
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International Workers' Day, 2016
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Commentary on high minimum wage proposals
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The immigration jump: Are more immigrants good for the economy?
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A note from the new Editor-in-Chief, Professor Daniel Hamermesh
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Does corruption promote emigration?
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Three reasons immigrants are valuable for the host country
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Not everything that counts is measured: the UK debate on job security
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Smart policy toward high-skill emigration: An interview with Michael Clemens
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What does the evidence tell us about sexual harassment in the workplace?
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Does education prepare you for working life?
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Do case workers really help the unemployed? An interview with Michael Rosholm
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Explainer: why some European countries do more than others to help refugees
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5 reasons why immigrants do not take natives' jobs
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Let the children play
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What if there were no national borders?
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It pays to be beautiful: Investments in appearance lead to success in the workplace
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We can't blame the loss of mid-level jobs purely on robots
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The FutureWork Opinion Series - Klaus F. Zimmermann
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The FutureWork Opinion Series - Colm Harmon
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The FutureWork Opinion Series - Alexander Kritikos
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The FutureWork Opinion Series - Pierre Cahuc
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The FutureWork Opinion Series - Olga Nottmeyer
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My husband and I were equal partners—then we had a baby
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Reflections on International Workers’ Day
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Is obesity the new smoking?
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Sexuality and the workplace: Coming out and losing out?
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What David Cameron, Angela Merkel, and Barack Obama need to understand
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An effective plan to promote youth employment
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Should we raise the minimum wage?
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Youth unemployment – evidence-based policy advice in Spain
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Tackling youth unemployment
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What to do on women's equality?
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Does it pay to host mega sporting events?
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Expert for 15 minutes?
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IZA World of Labor panel discussion on health and the labor markets
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IZA World of Labor discussion on the economics of sport
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IZA World of Labor discussion on the economics of education
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IZA World of Labor discussion on the economics of crime
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IZA World of Labor discussion on higher education
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IZA World of Labor discussion on the environment and the labor market
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IZA World of Labor discussion on inflation and the labor market
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IZA World of Labor panel on the macroeconomics of labor productivity
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IZA World of Labor video on inequality and post transition in emerging economies
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IZA World of Labor discussion on labor market evaluation
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IZA World of Labor discussion on the economics of education
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IZA World of Labor discussion on labor market institutions
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IZA World of Labor discussion on measuring poverty with Bruce D. Meyer
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IZA World of Labor panel discussion on environment and health
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IZA World of Labor panel discussion on gender and family issues
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IZA World of Labor panel discussion on migration issues
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Panel discussion on the impact of Covid-19 and today's labor market in Europe and the U.S.
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IZA World of Labor Panel Discussion on Women in Leadership
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Interview with Antti Kauhanen on gender differences in corporate hierarchies
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Gender discrimination and sexual harassment: A discussion with Joni Hersch
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