Articles

Anonymous job applications in Europe

Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. T...

Authors: Annabelle Krause, Ulf Rinne and Klaus F Zimmermann

Reforming an insider-outsider labor market: the Spanish experience

This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees, ...

Authors: Samuel Bentolila, Juan J Dolado and Juan F Jimeno

The German labor market after the Great Recession: successful reforms and future challenges

The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – which was f...

Authors: Marco Caliendo and Jens Hogenacker

The future of retirement and the pension system: How the public’s expectations vary over time and across socio-economic groups

We analyze expectations of the Dutch population ages 25 and older concerning future generosity of state and occupational pensions, the main pillars of the Dutch pension system. We use rotating panel data with ...

Authors: Luc Bissonnette and Arthur van Soest

Editorial: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Authors: Alan Barrett, Sara de la Rica, Martin Kahanec and Klaus F Zimmermann