An inteview with the IAB researcher Herbert Brücker and Yuliya Kosyakova on the second wave of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees. ...read more
8. February 2019 | Groups of Persons
Manager for download: Expectations versus reality
Digitisation will leave a strong mark on the working world of today. Including leadership styles, structures, and cultures. The article by R. Dreyhaupt, F. Gustke, L. Pierkes and M. Schmutzler ...read more
The article focuses on online gig economy which is transnational and spans a full spectrum of skills, from data entry to software development. The gig economy offers an interesting view to the future ...read more
Prof. Wilhelm Bauer describes trends of working in the digital transformation. ...read more
17. October 2018 | Groups of Persons
Labour market integration of refugees gains momentum
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 ...read more
13. September 2018 | Labour Market, Employment and Social Policy
Setting out for Digital Social Security
Platform work is increasing worldwide, leaving a serious lack of social protection. In spite of the international and flexible character of platform work, extending social security is feasible – if ...read more
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29. August 2017
IAB Labour Market Barometer for Germany
Every month, the IAB labour market barometer provides a short-term outlook for the development of both employment and unemployment in Germany.
20. April 2017
Key indicators of the German labour market
In a data appendix to its recent publication "Arbeitsmarkt kompakt" the IAB offers a broad range of key indicators of the German labour market.
20. April 2017
Industry 4.0 – job-producer or employment-destroyer?
A current report (2/2016) published by the IAB discusses the employment effects of the digital revolution in German manufacturing.
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The new complex and intelligent digitalisation poses a significant challenge to the economies and the labour markets. In this context, the underlying article discusses the future of employment and
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Germany’s labour market was in such a poor state that the country was described as ’the sick man of Europe’. Today, by contrast, the labour market is in such
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