Read moreFebruary 8, 2022 | Groups of Persons
How the transition from school to working life takes place sets the course for individual labour market opportunities. This transition is particularly difficult for disadvantaged young people. Here ...read more
Read moreAugust 20, 2020 | Education and Chances of Employment
Participation in vocational further training is unequally distributed among different groups. Migrants daughters often participate in further training. Men, who immigrated themselves, seldom take ...read more
Read moreJune 18, 2020 | Education and Chances of Employment
In this interview, the authors Herbert Brücker and Yuliya Kosyakova answer key questions on the employment of refugees in ...read more
Read moreMay 15, 2020 | Education and Chances of Employment
Silke Anger, Hans Dietrich, Alexander Patzina, Malte Sandner, Adrian Lerche, Sarah Bernhard, Carina Toussaint
The article presents empirical findings from German high school students during the school closing due to the COVID-19 ...read more
Read moreApril 1, 2020 | Education and Chances of Employment
The authors show four scenarios how population changes can effect the labour force potential in Germany and what parameters need to be adjusted ...read more
Read moreApril 10, 2018 | International Labour Markets
A few refugees get a job soon after they arrived in Germany. However, for most of them labour market integration is still a long way off. Bevor getting a job, many refugees have to learn German and ...read more
Read moreSeptember 13, 2017 | Education and Chances of Employment
In an article in the renowned Wall Street Journal of 8 September 2016 ("Germany offers a promising jobs model"), the American labour market economist Edward Lazear and the IAB researcher Simon ...read more
Read moreAugust 16, 2017 | Education and Chances of Employment