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March 4, 2026 | video

Flight, family, work: The path into the labour market

Jutta Winters

Since the start of the war, around one million people have fled from Ukraine to Germany. Mostly women with children. A study based on interviews with 3,400 refugees shows that Ukrainian women enter the labour market much faster than other refugee groups.

In this video, IAB researcher Yuliya Kosyakova explains why this is the case, which barriers remain, and what truly helps integration.

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Further reading

You can find more information on this topic in the IAB Research Report: “Living conditions and participation of Ukrainian refugees in Germany: Findings from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP survey of refugees“ by Yuliya Kosyakova et al.

About the person

Yuliya Kosyakova is Head of the Research Department on Migration, Integration and International Labour Market Research at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg (together with Herbert Brücker) and Professor of Migration Research at the University of Bamberg.

DOI: 10.48720/IAB.FOO.20260304.03

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This publication is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.de

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