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July 1, 2024 | Interviews

“Working on national topics and being part of the international research community go very well together”

Research is increasingly international and benefits greatly from international exchange. The IAB is also becoming more and more international. Yuliya Kosyakova, Head of the IAB's research department ...read more

This picture shows a portrait of Professor Giovanni Peri.

June 14, 2024 | Interviews

“Locations where new work creation has been larger were also locations where employment levels grew more quickly”

Max Gerber, Jutta Winters

Professor Giovanni Peri, a renowned economist from the University of California, will give a Special Lecture at the IAB on 20 June 2024. He will share his research on the rise of new work in the US, ...read more

Two men and a woman, all wearing high-visibility waistcoats, are standing in a modern wind farm and planing a project.

June 12, 2024 | Digital and ecological transformation

Vocational training: Occupations with green skills are in high demand

Udo Brixy, Markus Janser, Andreas Mense

Tackling the climate crisis requires a restructuring of the economy, which increases the demand for particular skills. In Germany, this increased demand is confronted with an overall scarcity of ...read more

May 2, 2024 | video

Pioneers in world-class data access: Moving the frontier in labor data from 2004 to 2024

Max Gerber, Jutta Winters

The Federal Employment Agency's Research Data Centre (FDZ) at the IAB recently marked its 20th anniversary, a milestone celebrated with a keynote address by labor economist Till von Wachter. ...read more

April 10, 2024 | Interviews

"The Research Data Centre provides a good example for other data areas"

Jutta Winters, Christiane Keitel, Laura Deckbar

The FDZ is now celebrating an anniversary: for twenty years, the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) has provided ...read more

The picture shows a portrait of Alan Manning.

March 8, 2024 | video

Gender Pay Gap in the United Kingdom and in Germany

Jutta Winters

The 8th of March marks the annual International Women’s Day. Wages are an important factor in driving gender parity. In a video interview Professor Alan Manning talks about the gender pay gap between ...read more

Adult men and women of different ages each sit at a desk in a training room and work with headsets on their laptops.

February 21, 2024 | Education and the Labour Market

Adult lifelong learning: Cross-country comparison with a focus on Germany

Teresa Sophie Friedrich, Agata Danuta Galkiewicz

In the modern and highly digitalised world constant updating one’s qualifications seems inevitable. Thus the importance of lifelong education has been increasing. Despite this global trend, Germany ...read more

February 1, 2024 | Interviews

“Eroding trust in the state and in frontline workers can become a catalyst for the rise of populism”

Jutta Winters

Professor Gabriela Spanghero Lotta explores the dynamics of citizen-state interactions in Latin America, outlines the role of frontline workers in dealing with situations of vulnerability, and ...read more

Eine junge Frau sitzt an einem Tisch am Fenster und schaut gedankenverloren hinaus. Auf dem Tisch befinden sich eine Tasse, ein Handy und eine Topfpflanze.

December 29, 2023 | Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Younger and less satisfied? Young workers’ life satisfaction during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany

Juliane Achatz, Bernhard Christoph, Silke Anger

Adverse effects on workers' employment situation are highly unequal for different groups. Young workers were particularly affected by the pandemic. They were less likely to receive short-time work ...read more