All articles for: Education and Chances of Employment
February 8, 2022 | Education and Chances of Employment
Disadvantaged young people find the transition from school to work particularly difficult
Nancy Reims, Malte Sandner, Brigitte Schels
How the transition from school to working life takes place sets the course for individual labour market opportunities. This transition is particularly difficult... Read more
August 20, 2020 | Education and Chances of Employment
Daughters of migrants often participate in further training
Ute Leber, Franziska Schreyer, Huy Le Quang
Participation in vocational further training is unequally distributed among different groups. Migrants daughters often participate in further training. Men, who immigrated themselves, seldom... Read more
June 18, 2020 | Education and Chances of Employment
What do we know about the employment of refugees in Germany? Answers to some frequently asked questions.
Herbert Brücker, Yuliya Kosyakova
In this interview, the authors Herbert Brücker and Yuliya Kosyakova answer key questions on the employment of refugees in Germany.... Read more
May 15, 2020 | Education and Chances of Employment
School closings during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from German high school students
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 pandemic.... Read more
April 1, 2020 | Education and Chances of Employment
Effects of population changes on the labour market in Germany
Sabine Klinger, Johann Fuchs
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
April 10, 2018 | Education and Chances of Employment
Labour market advice and job placement of refugees: Labour market integration is still a long way off
Holger Bähr, Martin Dietz, Barbara Knapp
A few refugees get a job soon after they arrived in Germany. However, for most of them labour market integration is still a... Read more
September 13, 2017 | Education and Chances of Employment
Should the US introduce a dual vocational training system following the German example? Four questions to IAB researcher Simon Janssen
Martin Schludi
In an article in the renowned Wall Street Journal of 8 September 2016 ("Germany offers a promising jobs model"), the American labour market... Read more
