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Sabine Köhne-Finster

Senior Economist for surveys and training research

Tel: +49 221 4981-862 Mail: Koehne-Finster@iwkoeln.de Sabine Köhne-Finster

At the IW since 2022
Studied social sciences at the University of Osnabrück, graduated with a degree in social economics
Research interests: Methods of empirical social research, vocational training, digitalization in in-company training

Thematic clusters

Vocational Education and Professionals

Empirical clusters

IW Publications

Quispe, Valeria / Kunath, Gero / Köhne-Finster, Sabine / Werner, Dirk, 2025, Berechnung von Fachkräfteengpässen nach Wirtschaftszweigen. Methodik und Ergebnisse einer methodischen Erweiterung der IW-Fachkräftedatenbank, IW-Report, Nr. 55, Köln
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External Publications

Köhne-Finster, Sabine et.al. (2021), Berufsbildung 4.0 – Fachkräftequalifikationen und Kompetenzen für die digitalisierte Arbeit von morgen, Säule 3: Monitoring- und Projektionssystem zu Qualifizierungsnotwendigkeiten für die Berufsbildung 4.0

More from Sabine Köhne-Finster

IW-Report No. 55 8. November 2025 Valeria Quispe et al.

Calculation of skilled labor shortages by economic sector

Since 2020, the German Economic Institute (IW) has been calculating the shortages of skilled workers in Germany with a uniquely developed methodology (Burstedde et al., 2020).