🧵In a new #IABdiscussionpaper researcher Leonie Wicht shows that displacement during dual vocational education and training (VET) leads to small but persistent earnings losses. (1/5)

🧵 The new #IABDiscussionPaper exploits a unique norm-shifting setting — a German pension reform that equalized retirement ages across genders — to examine how old-age employment propagates through workplace networks. (1/5)

The new #IABDiscussionPaper analyzes the role of health for refugees’ #integration into host societies' labor markets. IAB researchers exploit the quasi-random dispersal policies of refugees across regions in #Germany to analyze the causal effect of health on employment. Based on regional and (1/4)

The past half century has witnessed gender convergence across many labor market outcomes, including hours worked, earnings, and occupations. However, the new #IABDiscussionPaper shows that, over the same period, men’s & women’s sectors of employment actually diverged: doku.iab.de/discussionpa... 1/3

The current #IABDiscussionPaper examines the impact of the German government’s suspension of the EU’s Dublin III regulations in 2015, allowing all asylum seekers to apply for asylum in Germany: doku.iab.de/discussionpa...
Researchers examined how the policy change affected migration aspirations 1/4

and more likely to express uncertainty about their future in Germany. #IABDiscussionPaper: doku.iab.de/discussionpa... #EconSky #Syria #Migration 3/3

🧵 The impact of the Covid-19 #pandemic on worker careers: do different job opportunities matter?

The new #IABDiscussionPaper exploits that the Covid‑19 pandemic came as an unexpected shock that temporarily reduced the ratio of vacancies to seekers.
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The new #IABDiscussionPaper analyzes the removal of public bank guarantees in #Germany as a quasi-natural experiment to estimate the gender bargaining power gap. (1/5)