"Potential skills shortages on the labour market are one of the main topics in the public focus in Germany after the financial crisis of the late 2000s. This paper is one of the results of a project funded by the German federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and contributes to the...

"The Research Data Center (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg provides access to data of the German Job Vacancy Survey (EGS). The EGS includes information about the labour demand and the recruitment processes on the German...

"In the context of the IAB Job Vacancy Survey (EGS) firms were asked if they had to cancel recruitment processes for open vacancies in the year of the survey because no suitable candidates were found. It remains ambiguous if this cancellation means the actual ending of the firms' recruitment...

"Following microeconomic theory, every vacancy should be filled by appropriate manpower after a certain time. However, from an empirical point of view it is evident that vacancies remain unfilled as establishments cancel their search for a suitable applicant. The German Job Vacancy Survey (JVS)...

"Based on the two IAB establishment surveys - the IAB Establishment Panel and the IAB Job Vacancy Survey - this report sheds light on the German labour market from the firms' perspective and gives information about the labour demand and resulting skills shortages for the years 2006 to 2012. With...

Das Thema Fachkräftemangel ist seit Überwindung der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise wieder verstärkt in den Fokus öffentlicher Aufmerksamkeit gerückt. Der Forschungsbericht, der aus einem vom Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS) finanzierten Projekt entstanden ist, leistet auf...

Im Rahmen der IAB-Erhebung des Gesamtwirtschaftlichen Stellenangebots (EGS) werden Betriebe gefragt, ob sie im Jahr der Befragung die Personalsuche für offene Stellen abbrechen mussten, weil keine geeigneten Bewerber zu finden waren. Unklar bleibt bisher jedoch, ob dieser Suchabbruch das...