During the last several decades developed economies underwent salient employment shifts from manufacturing toward service production. This dissertation investigates the meaning of these changes for the occupational and skill structure of the German economy. It elaborates on the skills and...

Social and economic changes during the past decades have affected especially adolescents and young adults at the beginning of their working lives. In nearly all Western countries the school-to-work transition (STWT) nowadays is characterized by increased insecurity. The major aim of this...

Die vorliegende Studie stellt grundlegende Informationen zur Qualifikationsstruktur der Erwerbstätigen in Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich und zur Ausbildung des Fach- und Führungskräftenachwuchses zur Verfügung. Dafür werden auf Basis zahlreicher Indikatoren, die zumeist als...

Immigration policy in most high-income countries is designed to promote qualified migration while maintaining high requirements on characteristics such as education and language skills. We rely on a standard self-selection model with heterogeneous migration costs to discuss the effect of access...