Despite widespread recognition that the aggregate labour market is composed of a number of heterogeneous submarkets, there is little guidance on how to appropriately delineate such submarkets when conducting economic research. This paper contributes to a small but growing body of work addressing...

Knowing what skills are required by employers when recruiting new workers is an important basis for the work of all labour market actors. In the 2nd part of the "Machbarkeitsstudie Kompetenz-Kompass" project, we developed a methodology to identify recent hard and soft skill requirements in job...

We study the distributional consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic's impacts on employment, both during the onset of the pandemic and over recent months. Using cross-sectional and matched longitudinal data from the Current Population Survey, we show that the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing...

Automation affects workers because it affects the task content of their occupations. I propose a model which takes two important labor market features into account: (i) automation happens to tasks and (ii) workers with bundled skills work in occupations with bundled tasks. Equilibrium skill...

Vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels ist Deutschland in den nächsten Jahren immer stärker auf Zuwanderung angewiesen, um die Fachkräftebasis zu stabilisieren und die Leistungsfähigkeit der Wirtschaft zu sichern. Dabei erbringen Einwanderer bereits heute einen wichtigen Beitrag. So...

In der aktuellen KOFA-Studie hat das KOFA die Qualifizierung von Helferinnen und Helfern als Potenzial zur Fachkräftesicherung analysiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass durch eine Qualifizierung arbeitsloser An- und Ungelernter, die nach Tätigkeiten suchen, für die es mehr Arbeitslose als...

What makes a good teacher? This is one of the central questions in the economics of education. General teacher qualifications, such as education level or advanced degrees, tend to be poor predictors of teacher quality. Instead, some studies have shown that subject-specific qualifications predict...

We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011-2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased in...

Was haben Kitas mit Fachkräftemangel zu tun? Sehr viel, wie Anja Kettner eindrucksvoll belegt. Der Ausbau von Kitas ist ein probates Mittel zur Fachkräftesicherung. Denn staatliche Investitionen in Kinderbetreuung zahlen sich mehrfach aus - auf individueller wie volkswirtschaftlicher Ebene....