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Language Skills the Key to Labour Market Integration
  • Wido Geis-Thöne ·
  • IW-Trends No. 3 ·
  • 7 October 2019

Language Skills the Key to Labour Market Integration

Unlike their level of formal education, it is very difficult to monitor immigrants' German language skills and there is always a degree of uncertainty about their measurement. For this reason, the relationship between language skills and wages and unemployment was analysed using three different sets of data.
New perspectives for urban development
  • Ralph Henger / Christian Oberst / Michael Voigtländer ·
  • Expertise ·
  • 7 October 2019

Mobility and housing: New perspectives for urban development

Population growth in many of Germany’s major cities and metropolitan areas, and the resulting urgent growth in housing demand, are driving rapid construction of new residential properties in these markets.
Evidence-based decision-making in personnel management
  • Andrea Hammermann / Christopher Thiele ·
  • IW-Report No. 35 ·
  • 2 October 2019

People Analytics: Evidence-based decision-making in personnel management

The data volume is growing fast. In 2018 33 Zettabytes of data were generated and the amount is expected to grow to 44 Zettabytes in 2020. Only a fraction of data in companies is used for improving decision-making. This hold true specifically for the HR department. Decisions in recruiting and talent management are nowadays mainly based on intuition and experience rather than hard facts.
A Definition of Terms Using a Text-mining-based Literature Review
  • Alevtina Krotova / Jan Eppelsheimer ·
  • IW-Trends No. 3 ·
  • 26 September 2019

Data Governance: A Definition of Terms Using a Text-mining-based Literature Review

Data governance forms the basis of efficient data management within companies and across company boundaries. In practice, however, there is no clear and uniform definition of data governance and ist components.
Citizen insurance - No solution for future challenges in the GKV
  • Jochen Pimpertz ·
  • IW-Policy Paper No. 9 ·
  • 23 September 2019

Citizen insurance - No solution for future challenges in the GKV

In Germany 9 out of 10 citizens are covered by the statutory health insurance scheme (SHI), which is organised on a pay-as-you-go basis. One tenth of the population, on the other hand, is covered by funded private health insurance schemes.
How digitisation can be used to educate the low-skilled
  • Susanne Seyda ·
  • IW-Policy Paper No. 7 ·
  • 18 September 2019

How digitisation can be used to educate the low-skilled

The training participation of the low-skilled has increased significantly in recent decades. The main reasons are higher requirements and technical changes, which also affect the activities of low-skilled workers.
Nursing relatives in Germany
  • Susanna Kochskämper / Maximilian Stockhausen ·
  • IW-Report No. 34 ·
  • 17 September 2019

Nursing relatives in Germany

In this analysis, 2012 SOEP data was used to examine how many people in Germany have cared for their relatives and to what extent, and how this group can be described according to selected socio-economic characteristics such as age, gender, income, and assets.
Reaching the Right Target Group
  • Jochen Pimpertz / Maximilian Stockhausen ·
  • IW-Trends No. 3 ·
  • 9 September 2019

Old-age Income Support Instead of a Universal Basic Pension

The proposed universal basic pension (Grundrente) is intended to acknowledge the contribution to society made by indigent pensioners during their working lives. However, a higher pension without a means test would in four cases out of five mean misdirecting aid to those not in need.
Status quo and trends in e-commerce in Germany
  • Barbara Engels / Christian Rusche ·
  • IW-Report No. 33 ·
  • 4 September 2019

Status quo and trends in e-commerce in Germany

However, e-commerce is not equally important in the individual product groups. Above all, food is still largely sold offline. In the near future, the importance of e-commerce is expected to increase further.
Humanities scholars on the labour market
  • Christiane Konegen-Grenier ·
  • IW-Report No. 32 ·
  • 4 September 2019

Humanities scholars on the labour market

With a share of 8.2 per cent of all students and a share of 5.6 per cent of all approximately nine million employed graduates, the humanities graduates, without considering the teaching graduates, represent a comparatively small group in study and employment. Their most striking difference to the average of graduates is their high proportion of women, which in turn leads to an above-average proportion of mostly voluntary part-time employment.
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