Foreign Qualifications

Anyone who has obtained a vocational qualification or a university degree abroad and wants to pursue their profession in Germany can have their qualifications recognized here.

Kristina Stoewe ·
IW News ·
2 February 2018

Training and Education in the Main Countries of Origin

By the end of 2016, Germany had registered around 1.6 million persons seeking protection (Federal Statistical Office, 2017). In order to facilitate their integration into the vocational training and labour market, information on refugees' educational degrees, vocational qualifications and competencies is of central importance.

Kristina Stoewe ·
IW-Report ·
29 January 2018

Education Levels of Refugees

By the end of 2016, Germany had registered around 1.6 million persons seeking protection (Federal Statistical Office, 2017a). In order to facilitate their integration into the vocational training and labour market, information on refugees' educational degrees, vocational qualifications and competencies is of central importance.

Wido Geis ·
IW-Trends ·
4 August 2017

Securing Skilled Labour by Training High School Graduates from Abroad at German Universities

In recent years, more and more high school graduates from other countries, have been studying at German universities. While in the winter semester 2011/2012 there were around 193,000 such students, by 2015/2016 that number had risen to 252,000.

The Importance of Integration Support Programmes

Regina Flake / Svenja Jambo / Sarah Pierenkemper / Paula Risius / Dirk Werner ·
IW-Trends No. 2 ·
17 March 2017

Employment and Training of Refugees in Companies

Approximately every sixth enterprise in Germany already employs refugees as trainees, interns or permanent staff. Of these, smaller trades and skilled crafts firms are making a particularly large contribution to integration.

Oliver Koppel / Axel Plünnecke ·
IW-Kurzbericht No. 15 ·
14 February 2017

Qualified immigration from India showing signs of success

In recent years, qualified immigration has started to play a significant role for the German labour market, especially for securing skilled STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) employment. Efforts made to attract STEM immigrants from India are starting to show signs of success – both the number of employees in academic STEM jobs and the number of students in STEM disciplines have increased significantly in recent times. From a strategic viewpoint, this immigration from demographically strong non-European countries is particularly important for the future.