Comprehensive and coordinated action across levels of government responsible for different policy domains (labour, education, housing and welfare/health) as well as across local actors is crucial to migrant integration. To respond to this need for co-ordination, different policy instruments are...

When immigrants arrive in a new country, they are confronted with new labour market requirements such as language proficiency, familiarity with job search procedures and work practices which they are not always able to satisfy. These obstacles affect not only new immigrants, but, surprisingly,...

Die Bundesländer haben bei der aktiven Arbeitsmarkt- und Beschäftigungspolitik erheblichen Gestaltungsspielraum. Wie sie ihn für konkrete Handlungsstrategien, Programme und Instrumente nutzen und wie erfolgreich sie damit sind, untersucht die Studie »Die Bundesländer im Fokus«....

Recent reforms have put Germany among the OECD countries with the fewest restrictions on labour migration for highly-skilled occupations, yet inflows continue to be relatively low. As labour migration is supposed to be one means to help meet future labour and skill shortages caused by a...