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Valeria Quispe

Economist for qualification and securing skilled workers

Mail: Quispe@iwkoeln.de Valeria Quispe

At the IW since 2023
B.Sc. Economics at the University of Bonn
M.Sc. in Economics at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Maintenance and development of the IW skilled labor database
Main research areas: Labor markets, shortage of skilled workers and securing skilled workers

Research unit

Vocational Education and Professionals

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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Risius, Paula / Quispe, Valeria / Malin, Lydia / Arndt, Franziska / Mertens, Armin / Engler, Jan Felix, 2025, Der Einfluss von beruflicher Ähnlichkeit und Arbeitsmarktbedingungen auf Berufswechsel, IW-Report, Nr. 40, Köln
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More from Valeria Quispe

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).

IW-Report No. 40 12. September 2025 Paula Risius et al.

The influence of occupational similarity and labor market conditions on occupational change

Germany urgently needs skilled workers in various professions for the energy transition: in the 31 energy-related professions considered in this study, almost 119,000 of the total 185,000 vacancies could not be filled in 2024.