Read moreAugust 29, 2025 | Structural Change and the Labour Market
While men and women are increasingly found in the same occupations, a surprising trend has emerged: Sectors are becoming more gender-segregated over time. Are these patterns shaped by discriminatory ...read more
Read moreDecember 23, 2024 | Labour Market, Employment and Social Policy
Juliane Achatz, Frank Bauer, Jenny Bennett, Nadja Bömmel, Mustafa Coban, Martin Dietz, Kathrin Englert, Philipp Fuchs, Jan Gellermann, Claudia Globisch, Sebastian Hülle, Zein Kasrin, Peter Kupka, Anton Nivorozhkin, Christopher Osiander, Laura Pohlan, Markus Promberger, Miriam Raab, Philipp Ramos Lobato, Brigitte Schels, Maximilian Schiele, Mark Trappmann, Stefan Tübbicke, Claudia Wenzig, Joachim Wolff, Cordula Zabel, Stefan Zins
Long-term unemployment remains a significant challenge for the German labour market. The IAB evaluated two programmes that had been introduced in response. The instruments aim at giving long-term ...read more
Read moreJuly 25, 2024 | Interviews
When refugees first arrive in Germany, apart from individual constraints, institutional hurdles hinder them from integrating into the labour market. However, seven years after arrival, 63 percent are ...read more
Read moreNovember 28, 2023 | International and Regional Labour Markets
For many years, Germany has been facing an increasing skills shortage in key occupations and has sought to attract a growing number of highly-skilled immigrants. In striving for this goal, Germany is ...read more
Read moreJuly 15, 2022 | Series "The Effects of the Ukraine War on the German Labour Market"
Yuliya Kosyakova, Lidwina Gundacker, Zerrin Salikutluk, Parvati Trübswetter
Refugee women take for multiple reasons longer to be integrated into the German labour market than ...read more
Read moreJune 24, 2022 | Interviews
The interview compares the integration of Urkainian refugees into the German labour market and society with the integration of Syrian refugees in ...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 moreApril 30, 2019 | Interviews
Regina Konle-Seidl, researcher at the IAB in Nuremberg, compares in our video interview policies and practices to faciliate labour market integration of migrants in Austria, Germany, and Sweden. She ...read more
Read moreOctober 17, 2018 | Groups of Persons
A good 70 percent of refugees in Germany come from eight non-European asylum seekers' countries of origin. Their integration into the German labour market has increasingly gained momentum in recent ...read more