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Jugendliche sitzt im Korridor eines Schulgebäudes und denkt nach

February 8, 2022 | Groups of Persons

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 for disadvantaged young people. Here ...read more

Eine junge Fau mit mittelbrauner Hautfarbe hebt den Finger, um etwas zu sagen. Hinter ihr sitzen ein Mann mit dunkler Hautfarbe und eine blonde Frau.

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 take ...read more

Zwei Straßenarbeiter mit Migrationshuntergrund sitzen auf einer „unfertigen“ Straße und machen Pause.

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 ...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 ...read more

A crowd of people (men, women, young, old, light skin, brown skin) walking, shown from the back.

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

Beitragsbild zum Artikel "Beratung und Vermittlung von Flüchtlingen. Der lange Weg in den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt"

April 10, 2018 | International Labour Markets

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 long way off. Bevor getting a job, many refugees have to learn German and ...read more

Picture for the article "Should the US introduce a dual vocational training system following the German example? Four questions to IAB researcher Simon Janssen"

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 economist Edward Lazear and the IAB researcher Simon ...read more

Beitragsbild zum Artikel: "The dual apprenticeship system in Germany"

August 16, 2017 | Education and Chances of Employment