by J. Ritzen & K. Zimmermann                                      . A substantial literature claims that the strong increase in inequality over the last decade in Western industrial countries such as the US would lead to increasing tensions between different socio-economic groups which might in

Brexit symbolizes the new worries about internal European mobility. At the same time, the additional fears generated by the refugee crisis crowds out the necessary debate about new labor migration to Europe. Against this background, POP-Researchers Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmerma

The Migration and integration challenge is far from being mastered and a recurrent topic in academic, policy, business and social partner events. Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann gave a keynote on Refugee and Migrant Labor Market Integration: Europe in Need of a New Policy Agenda at the

What might the workplace look like in ten years? Interview with POP Co-Director Alessio J. G. Brown on how we can benefit from the transformation. Read the interview with Alessio Brown published by T-Systems here. Read also the UNU-MERIT post “The Future World of Work: Flexible

Chunbei Wang and Le Wang of the University of Oklahoma received the 2018 Kuznets Prize for their article “Knot yet: Minimum marriage age law, marriage delay, and earnings,” which was published in the Journal of Population Economics (2017), 30(3), pp. 771-804. The annual prize ho

Volume 31 (2) of the Journal of Population Economics features Wang-Sheng Lee and Terra McKinnish’s article “The marital satisfaction of differently aged couples”. Enjoy it for free for six weeks!

This issue features the freely-accessible lead article “The marital satisfaction of differently aged couples” by Wang-Sheng Lee and Terra McKinnish, which explores the hypothesis that differently-aged couples are less resilient to negative shocks than couples comprised of similarly-ag