All articles on: International Labour Markets

April 24, 2026 | video

How U.S. Tariffs are Affecting the German Economy

U.S. trade policy is placing increasing pressure on business in Germany. Free trade fosters economic growth on both sides. But the United States is currently reshaping the rules of international ...read more

Zwei ältere Geschäftsleute, ein Mann und eine Frau, stehen in einem Bürogebäude vor einem Aufzug und unterhalten sich.

July 19, 2024 | Interviews

An international comparison of the employment situation among older people: “Germany has caught up considerably”

Christiane Keitel, Jutta Winters, Martin Schludi

In many developed countries the baby boomers are gradually reaching retirement age. This creates challenges for both labour supply and pension systems. At the same time, it is not a given that older ...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

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

Das Bild zeigt die ELMI-Konferenz aus derZuschauerperspektive

November 27, 2023 | International and Regional Labour Markets

ELMI conference: Navigating Digital, Green and Social Transitions in European Labour Markets

Jutta Winters

The Network of European Labour Market Research Institutes (ELMI) held its first conference in Luxembourg on 30 and 31 October 2023. The event brought together leading national and international ...read more

June 5, 2023 | Interviews

Alan Manning: "It is important to have institutions such as the minimum wage to adress the market power of employers"

Jutta Winters

Professor Alan Manning, one of the world's most renowned labour market economists, explains in this video-statement the basic idea of imperfect competition in the labour market. He elaborates on the ...read more

May 9, 2023 | International perspectives on applying short-time work during the Covid-19 crisis

“Over one million temporary workers lost their jobs at the beginning of the pandemic, as companies preferred not to include them in short-time work schemes”

Jutta Winters

Spain used a short-time work scheme called “Expediente Temporal de Regulación de Empleo” during the Covid-19 crisis. In this interview, Marcel Jansen, Associate Professor of Economics at the ...read more

Junge Frau arbeitet in einem Büro am Laptop. Auf der Pinnwand dahinter ist eine ukrainische Flagge befestigt.

December 1, 2022 | Series "The Effects of the Ukraine War on the German Labour Market"

Vocational training in Ukraine – an overview

Franziska Schreyer, Silke Anger, Tim-Felix Grabert, Olena Martyniuk

The longer Ukrainian refugees stay in their receiving countries, the more urgent questions about their integration into the local labour markets become. In this context, also the issue of which ...read more

April 20, 2022 | International Labour Markets

The war in Ukraine, international trade and price effects on the German economy

Kamal Kassam, Ignat Stepanok

Russia’s exports account for a large share of world trade in a few goods and commodities classes. These are most notably nickel, fertilisers, mineral fuels and mineral oils, cereals and wood. Their ...read more