#FactOfTheDay The mere prospect of legal status may improve the labour market outcomes of undocumented immigrants.

The increase in employment probability brought about by the prospect of legalisation is equivalent to the increase in employment probability experienced by…

📢 #PublicationAlert 'Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages: Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data', by Andreas I. Mueller, Damian Osterwalder, Project Leader Josef Zweimüller and Andreas Kettemann has been published in the May 2024 issue of The Review of Economic Studies:…

An overview on the Economics of Religion, by Project Leader Sascha O. Becker 👇

Director Christian Dustmann, Rasmus Landersø and Lars Højsgaard Andersen have found that the long-term returns of the 2002 Danish Start Aid reform are negative.

On the positive side, refugees entered employment faster due to the welfare benefit cut.

On the negative side, crime rates…

#FactOfTheDay What are the effects of active labour market programs?

A meta-analysis from over 200 studies of active labour market programs from around the world concludes that average impacts of these programs are close to zero in the short run, but become positive 2-3 years…

#FactOfTheDay What was the role of school closures in the spread of the #SARSCoV2 ? Empirical results from Germany suggest that schools played a limited role in the transmission of the coronavirus.

Causal evidence from the first waves of the pandemic indicates that school…