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Promoting Social Partnership in Employee Training
  • Regina Flake / Svenja Jambo / Markus Körbel / Susanne Seyda / Daniel Wörndl / Michael Zibrowius ·
  • Expertise ·
  • 19 June 2018

Promoting Social Partnership in Employee Training

In the wake of global trends like the digitalisation of the economy, employees are faced not only with higher demands for competences but also with the requirement to continuously adapt and further develop their skills to maintain their employability. This study was conducted on behalf of the European social partners, ETUC, BusinessEurope, CEEP and UEAPME, with financial support of the European Commission.

What do German Enterprises do?
  • Markus Körbel / Sarah Pierenkemper / Michael Zibrowius ·
  • Expertise ·
  • 28 September 2017

Gaining and Retaining Skilled Personnel Abroad

The present study investigates training strategies of German companies in developing and emerging countries. By means of semi-structured interviews we shed light on the experiences of 16 companies operating in six countries. We thereby aim at identifying guidance for companies’ training and personnel development abroad.

Developments and Success Factors in Selected Countries
  • Regina Flake ·
  • Expertise ·
  • 7 March 2017

The Role of the Private Sector in Vocational and Educational Training

Even though the four analysed countries are very different in terms of their starting points and their demographic, economic and institutional framework conditions, they all face the same challenge: designing a vocational education and training system that makes the country future-proof.

A Hedonic Rent Index for Student Housing in Germany
  • Philipp Deschermeier / Björn Seipelt ·
  • Expertise ·
  • 4 October 2016

A Hedonic Rent Index for Student Housing in Germany

This survey, produced for Deutsche Real Estate Funds in cooperation with ImmobilienScout24, compares and analyses price developments in 15 metropolitan and student cities in Germany.

Graduates with international experience in the German labor market
  • Christiane Konegen-Grenier / Beate Placke ·
  • Expertise ·
  • 20 May 2016

Graduates with international experience in the German labor market

Study for the German Academic Exchange Service

Vocational Education and Training for Young People in Europe
  • Sara-Julia Blöchle / Regina Flake / Tarrin Khairi-Taraki / Markus Körbel / Sarah Pierenkemper / Corinna Rauland / Dirk Werner / Daniel Wörndl ·
  • Expertise ·
  • 21 October 2015

Vocational Education and Training for Young People in Europe

Fostering mutual learning, forging the future together

Getting prepared for the upswing
  • Sandra Vogel ·
  • Expertise ·
  • 3 March 2011

Getting prepared for the upswing

Training and Qualification during the crisis

European Engineering Report
  • Vera Erdmann / Tanja Schumann ·
  • Expertise ·
  • 29 April 2010

European Engineering Report

Engineers play an important role in the innovative performance and the competitiveness of European countries. The aim of this report is therefore to provide a comprehensive overview of the most...

Continuous vocational training and collective bargaining in the EU
  • Oliver Stettes ·
  • Expertise ·
  • 31 December 2008

Continuous vocational training and collective bargaining in the EU

The regulation of continuous vocational training (CVT) is highly dispersed and only affects a small proportion of CVT activities in Germany. Collective agreements are of minor significance for the...

Youth and Work
  • Oliver Stettes ·
  • Expertise ·
  • 31 January 2007

Youth and Work

The case of Germany

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