After the crisis years of 2008 and 2009 EU countries followed different employment paths. Employment and wage levels, for instance, are quite unevenly distributed across Europe. Some of the EU countries expect labour shortages due to demographic change in the future. If this is the case, wages...

Die informationelle Infrastruktur in Deutschland hat sich seit Ende der 1990er-Jahre beträchtlich fortentwickelt, wenngleich zuletzt die Coronakrise gezeigt hat, dass sie noch erhebliche Defizite aufweist. Die Erkenntnis, dass Einzeldaten einen Wert haben, und die Nachfrage der empirischen...

The economic integration of migrants is a key concern, especially in attempting to counteract the impact of demographic change and the impending labor shortage by migration. Moreover, a suc-cessful labor market integration acts as one of the most important integration mechanism in mod-ern labor...

Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...

Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...

Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper analyzes the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings being characterized by wage posting....

Labour shortages are a field of research that has been investigated quite thoroughly. The reactions of firms facing problems during the hiring process are, however, largely neglected in empirical literature. Our research will fill this empirical gap and shed light on the question of whether...

Theoretically, wage gaps between migrants and natives can be explained by human capital theory through either depreciation in human capital with migration or differences in endowments. However, even after considering human capital measures, an unexplained difference remains. We assume that...

Zur Vorbereitung des Jahresgutachtens 2017/18 des Sachverständigenrats zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung wurde das IAB um seine Expertise zur Integration der in den letzten Jahren nach Deutschland zugezogenen Geflüchteten gebeten. Das IAB äußerte sich im Herbst 2017 zum...

Im zweiten Quartal 2015 wurden im Rahmen der IAB-Stellenerhebung 8.922 Betriebsstätten zu Ihren Erfahrungen bei der Personalsuche im Ausland befragt. Hochgerechnet haben über 100.000 Betriebe in Deutschland zwischen dem zweiten Quartal 2014 und dem zweiten Quartal 2015 eine Person direkt aus...