The IW's Education, Immigration and Innovation Research Unit is researching how education and immigration contribute to securing skilled labor.
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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.
Contact Persons

Dr. Christina Anger
Head of the Research Group Microdata
Tel: +49 221 4981-718 Mail: anger
Aiste Bergmeister
Consultant "Make it in Germany"
Tel: +49 221 4981-738 Mail: bergmeister
Julia Betz
Economist for economics of education
Tel: +49 221 4981-675 Mail: betz
Rosalia Meztli Chino Flores
Consultant „Make it in Germany“
Tel: +49 221 4981-823 Mail: flores
Dr. Wido Geis-Thöne
Senior Economist for Family Policy and Migration Issues
Tel: +49 221 4981-705 Mail: geis
Justina Godesberg
Teamleader "Make it in Germany"
Tel: +49 221 4981-875 Mail: godesberg
Carolina Guzman Martinez
Consultant "Make it in Germany"
Tel: +49 221 4981-337 Mail: martinez

Alexandra Köbler
Consultant for skilled labor immigration
Tel: +49 221 4981-687 Mail: koebler
Kerstin Krey
Head of Education, Innovation and Immigration Research Unit
Tel: +49 221 4981-833Fax: +49 221 4981-99833
Mail: krey
Hanna Leicher
Consultant „Make it in Germany”
Tel: +49 221 4981-779 Mail: leicher
Jeannette Michaelle Nintcheu
Senior advisor for skilled labor immigration
Tel: +49 221 4981-872 Mail: nintcheu
Prof. Dr. Axel Plünnecke
Head of Education, Innovation and Immigration Research Unit
Tel: +49 221 4981-701 Mail: pluenneckeAll news
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