We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare the results for Ethnic Germans with those for foreigners from the same origin countries and Native Germans. In the first case, the two have the same labour market access but...

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...

Die Fachkräfteallianz Baden-Württemberg hat vor dem Hintergrund der anstehenden demografischen Veränderungen und sich bereits aktuell abzeichnender Engpässe in einzelnen Berufsfeldern Ziele zur Sicherung der Fachkräfteangebotes der Wirtschaft des Landes vereinbart. Hierzu wird angestrebt...