The IW's Education, Immigration and Innovation competence area is researching how education and immigration contribute to securing skilled labor.
Education, Immigration and Innovation
The experts scrutinise the educational system from early-childhood teaching, primary and secondary schools right up to tertiary education. The focus is on both monitoring educational processes and policy developments as well as issues of funding and fairness with respect to the education system. Our economists analyse the contribution of migration to securing a skilled workforce, examine the importance of workers qualified in STEM subjects (science, technology, electronics and mathematics) for a country’s innovation performance and investigate whether such workers are sufficiently available to the labour market. The unit identifies potential bottlenecks and suggests how these might be removed.
Sections of the Research Unit
Contact Persons

Dr. Christina Anger
Head of the Research Group Microdata and Method Development
Tel: +49 221 4981-718 Mail: anger@iwkoeln.de