The IW's Education, Immigration and Innovation competence area is researching how education and immigration contribute to securing skilled labor.
Education, Immigration and Innovation
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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.
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Dr. Christina Anger
Head of the Research Group Microdata and Method Development
Tel: +49 221 4981-718 Mail: anger@iwkoeln.de
Juanita Arango
Consultant in the Project "Make it in Germany"
Tel: +49 221 4981-263 Mail: arango@iwkoeln.de Juanita Arango
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Julia Betz
Consultant Education Monitor and MINT
Tel: +49 221 4981-675 Mail: betz@iwkoeln.de Julia Betz View profile 
Rosalia Meztli Chino Flores
Consultant in the project „Make it in Germany“
Tel: +49 221 4981-823 Mail: flores@iwkoeln.de
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Dr. Wido Geis-Thöne
Senior Economist for Family Policy and Migration Issues
Tel: +49 221 4981-705 Mail: geis@iwkoeln.de View profile 
Justina Godesberg
Teamleader Project Make it in Germany
Tel: +49 221 4981-875 Mail: godesberg@iwkoeln.de Justina Godesberg
Carolina Guzmann Martinez
Consultant in the "Make it in Germany" project
Tel: +49 221 4981-337 Mail: martinez@iwkoeln.de
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Alexandra Köbler
Consultant for Immigration
Tel: +49 221 4981-687 Mail: koebler@iwkoeln.de Alexandra Köbler
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Kerstin Krey
Head of Education, Innovation and Immigration Research Unit
Tel: +49 221 4981-833Fax: +49 221 4981-99833
Mail: krey@iwkoeln.de View profile 
Jeannette Michaelle Nintcheu
Researcher for Immigration
Tel: +49 221 4981-872 Mail: nintcheu@iwkoeln.de Jeannette Michaelle Nintcheu
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Prof. Dr. Axel Plünnecke
Head of Education, Innovation and Immigration Research Unit
Tel: +49 221 4981-701 Mail: pluennecke@iwkoeln.de @A_Pluennecke View profile 
Vanessa Pohlmann
Consultant in the project „Make it in Germany“
Tel: +49 221 4981-834 Mail: Pohlmann@iwkoeln.de
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IW-Report
No. 33
9. August 2024
IW labor market forecast 2027: Immigration can compensate for ageing
This study is the annual update of the IW labor market extrapolation with data up to 2022. The methodology is described in detail by Burstedde (2023). The update shows how employment and skilled labor shortages could develop during the next five years if the empirical trends of the last seven years were to continue. This is different from a forecast.
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IW-Report
No. 22
4. May 2024
Securing skilled workers through immigration to universities
Against the backdrop of demographic change, Germany is increasingly dependent on skilled labour from abroad to secure growth and prosperity.
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IW-Trends
No. 1
4. March 2024
The Regional Distribution of Graduates in Germany
Graduates in Germany are distributed very unevenly across the country. Taking the population aged between 35 and 44, who have generally already completed their higher education, in 2019 the highest proportions of university graduates were to be found in Berlin and the Munich regional planning area.
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IW-Trends
No. 1
4. March 2024
The Regional Distribution of Low-skilled Workers in Germany
Low-skilled workers in Germany are heavily concentrated in urban areas. In 2019, the proportion of 25- to 64-year-olds who had not completed at least two years of vocational training or higher education was almost twice as high in cities with a population of over 100,000 (20.8 per cent) as in small municipalities with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants (10.7 per cent).
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IW-Report
No. 13
24. February 2024
Parental contributions for childcare in a regional comparison
The federal states take very different approaches to organising parental participation in the costs of state and state-funded childcare.
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