All articles for: labour-market
December 23, 2024 | Erwerbsbeteiligung, Armut und Sozialpolitik
Subsidised jobs for the long-term unemployed: An evaluation of the German Participation Opportunities Act
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... Read more
July 25, 2024 | Interviews
“Institutional hurdles slow the integration of refugees down”
Jutta Winters
When refugees first arrive in Germany, apart from individual constraints, institutional hurdles hinder them from integrating into the labour market. However, seven years... Read more
July 1, 2024 | International and Regional Labour Markets
“Working on national topics and being part of the international research community go very well together”
Christiane Keitel
Research is increasingly international and benefits greatly from international exchange. The IAB is also becoming more and more international. Yuliya Kosyakova, Head of... 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 28, 2023 | International and Regional Labour Markets
Easy come, easy go: Return migration increases with tax incentives in the home country
Jacopo Bassetto, Guiseppe Ippedico
For many years, Germany has been facing an increasing skills shortage in key occupations and has sought to attract a growing number of... 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
July 17, 2023 | International perspectives on applying short-time work during the Covid-19 crisis
“At the peak of the Covid-19 crisis, short-time work covered one in five jobs across the OECD – ten times more than at the height of the global financial crisis”
Jutta Winters
Alexander Hijzen, a senior economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), gives an overview of the country-specific application of short-time... Read more
May 16, 2023 | Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic
“At the peak, 40 percent of the French labour force were on short-time work”
Martin Schludi
In France, just like in many other European countries, short-time work has proved to be a powerful tool to prevent massive layoffs during... Read more
March 2, 2023 | Interviews
“Refugees from Ukraine face considerable uncertainty about their future”
Christiane Keitel, Jutta Winters
More than one million people have fled Ukraine to find refuge in Germany. But how are they doing in the meantime? Between August... Read more