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Gender equality in the labor market - Where do we stand and what options does politics have?

IAW lecture event with panel discussion at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Lecture:

Gender equality in the labor market - scientific evidence and political options for action.

Photo: Deutsche Bundesbank

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Chair of Macroeconomics and Development at the Department of Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.

Panel discussion:

Photo: Deutsche Bundesbank

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Goethe University of Frankfurt a.M.
Dr. Nicola Brandt, Head of the OECD Berlin Centre
Dr. Claudia Holtschlag, HR Analytics & Transformation Manager, Vodafone
Roland Wolf, Managing Director and Head of the Labor Law and Collective Bargaining Policy Department, BDA
Moderation: Johannes Pennekamp, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Award of the Norbert Kloten Prize for Applied Economic Research 2024

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Vocational language courses improve German language skills, but only strengthen labour market integration to a limited extent.

Overall, the different types of courses offer heterogeneous groups of participants good opportunities to further develop their linguistic and social integration. On the other hand, job-related German language support only partially achieves the desired effects in terms of labour market integration in the period of up to 30 months after the start of a vocational language course. During the language acquisition phase, vocational language courses, which are usually full-time programmes, can only be combined with gainful employment to a limited extent. Even after completing the course, former participants are less likely to be employed than comparable non-participants during the observation period.

Press release (in German)

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March 14-15, 2024: 2nd rehapro conference "Social innovations for participation in working life", Duisburg

Results from the survey of participants in rehapro model projects (in German).

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Boockmann [IAW]

March 14, 2024: Event "Racism versus immigration of skilled workers - How can we attract and retain international skilled workers?" organized by the Böblingen district council

Contexts and causes of the emigration of foreign skilled workers from Germany (in German).

Dr. Tobias Scheu [IAW]

February 23, 2024: DIFIS-Issue-Networks Poverty Research Conference, University of Duisburg-Essen

Empowerment in poverty-related life situations (in German).

Andrea Kirchmann and Christin Schafstädt [IAW]

Publications

Martin Biewen, Miriam Sturm

Why a labour market boom does not necessarily bring down inequality: putting together Germany's inequality puzzle
Fiscal Studies, February 2022, Vol. 43, 121-149, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-5890.12294

Deutlicher Rückgang der Schattenwirtschaft in Deutschland

Prognose zur Entwicklung der Schattenwirtschaft in Deutschland im Jahr 2022

Andrea Kirchmann, Anastasia Maier, Christin Schafstädt

Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie auf die Beratung, Betreuung und Begleitung von Langzeitleistungsbeziehenden nach dem SGB II

Forschungsprojekt im Kontext der Corona-Pandemie im Rahmen des Fördernetzwerks Interdisziplinäre Sozialforschung (FIS), IAW Policy Reports Nr. 21, Dezember 2021

Isabell Göbel, Günther Klee

Betriebliche Ausbildung in Baden-Württemberg 2020

Eine empirische Analyse auf der Basis des IAB-Betriebspanels, IAW-Kurzbericht 2/2021

Andrea Kirchmann, Christin Schafstädt

The telephone cannot replace personal contact (in German).
neue Caritas, 122. Jahrgang, Heft 21, 6. Dezember 2021, S. 22-24 (Herausgeber: Deutscher Caritasverband e.V.)