In modern societies the labor market integration of each individual demands the central task of integration. Nevertheless “job integration” or a successful occupational life course depends not only upon his or her motivation or attention to the job directly, but is also a function of his or her qualification or biography and of his or her embedding into a preferred social environment. Using a s...

In a constantly changing job market, Information Technology (IT) practitioners must keep their skills up-to-date. Educational institutions with Informational Technology curricula must also keep current in course offerings and programs of study. One way to maintain relevance is to examine and identify what IT skills and competencies are in demand. Job positions, indicating current expertise need...

This paper focuses on estimating the magnitude of any potential weight discrimination by examining whether obese job applicants in Germany get treated or behave differently from non-obese applicants. Based on two waves of rich survey data from the IZA Evaluation dataset, which includes measures that control for education, demographic characteristics, labor market history, psychological factors ...

Background Introduction Well-established vocational education and training systems (VET) have become widely recognised as facilitating smooth school-to-work transitions (Buchmann 2011). One main reason for successful labour market entry can be found in institutionalised Abstract Background: This study links TREE panel data surveying school-to-work transitions in Switzerland with unique job adve...

Data from the first wave of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics Australia survey is use to examine labour market success and failure in the Australian labour market. The indicators used to measure success and failure are (1) gaining initial employment (2) securing continuity of employment and (3) securing high levels of job satisfaction. The data are also used to examine the methods of job...

I examine changes in the incidence and consequences of job loss between 1981 and 1999 using data from the DisplacedWorkers Surveys (DWS) from 1984-2000. The overall rate of job loss has a strong counter-cyclical component, but the job loss rate was higher than might have been expected during the mid-1990's given the strong labor market during that period. While the job loss rate of more-educate...

Does Equal Pay Legislation Reduce Labour Market Inequality? This paper considers a labour market model of monopsonistic competition with taste-based discrimination against minority workers to study the effect of equal pay legislation on labour market inequality. When the taste for discrimination is small or competition is weak, the policy removes job segregation and the wage gap completely. How...

Workers’ Views of the Impact of Trade on Jobs Although public policy is influenced by the perception that workers worry about the impact of trade on their jobs, there is little empirical evidence on what shapes such views. This paper uses new data to examine how workers’ perceptions of the impact of trade are related to their career paths, job characteristics, and local labor market conditions....

The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) a↵ects the labor market through the job finding rate of eligible workers. I argue that this focus is too narrow. I show evidence for UI e↵ects through three other margins: (i) search externalities; (ii) takeup of other welfare state programs; and (iii) job separations. This suggests that the analysis of optimal UI should take a mo...

This paper estimates a model of two-sided search using micro-level data for a well-defined labour market. It examines the assumption of random matching and contrasts it with the stock-flow (or non-random) matching model of Coles and collaborators. Given a dataset of contacts, matches, and complete labour-market histories for both sides of the market, we estimate hazard functions for both (unemp...