All articles for: International Labour Markets
April 24, 2026 | International Labour Markets
How U.S. Tariffs are Affecting the German Economy
Jutta Winters
U.S. trade policy is placing increasing pressure on business in Germany. Free trade fosters economic growth on both sides. But the United States... Read more
July 19, 2024 | Groups of Persons
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... Read more
April 10, 2024 | International Labour Markets
"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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
June 5, 2023 | International Labour Markets
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... Read more
May 9, 2023 | Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic
“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... Read more
December 1, 2022 | Education and the 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... 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,... Read more