When Germany introduced its federal statutory minimum wage of 8.50 euro in 2015, it marked a major shift in labour policy. Fast forward to 2025, and the minimum wage is now 12.82 euro. Given annual increases in the minimum wage, there are ongoing debates about how minimum wages affect income inequality. It turns out the read full article

How do different countries integrate immigrants? How does language training link with skills training? Do these distinct policy choices have an impact on labour market outcomes? What about the gender gap in participation, employment and wage outcomes? The 5th ELMI Policy Talk on immigrant integration services examined these questions.

David Autor, Professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), gives a Special Lecture at the IAB on 15 January 2025. In this accompanying interview, he discusses the impact of Artificial Intelligence on wages and employment, outlines the crucial role of expertise and gives insights on policy-approaches for supporting workers in rapidly changing read full article

Long-term unemployment remains a significant challenge for the German labour market. The IAB evaluated two programmes that had been introduced in response. The instruments aim at giving long-term unemployed people the opportunity to participate in working life. How successful have they been so far?

The 2024 European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) conference gathered leading experts to discuss the latest findings from labour market research. Professor Bernd Fitzenberger organized and chaired the policy panel focusing on the problem of labour and skills shortages.

The Italian government decided on major expenditure saving for the Italian citizens’ income called “Reditto di Cittadinanza” in August 2023. In order to finance promised tax cuts, the payments were reduced from 8 to 5 billion euro and the number of recipients by 40 percent. The IAB Forum editors interviewed the renowned Italian professors Paolo read full article

According to a survey conducted by the IAB, female university students have different salary expectations than male students. They would accept a starting salary that is 15.6 percent lower than that of their male peers. There is also a gender gap of a similar magnitude in their expected starting wages. This is not only due read full article

Do the labour market prospects associated with education programmes matter to young adults’ study choices? Does career counselling help students to choose the most suitable careers for them? And can female role-models help to tackle the underrepresentation of women in male-dominated STEM programmes? The 4th ELMI Policy Talk on labour market prospects and study choices’ read full article

Since the start of the war on 24 February 2022, more than six million Ukrainians have sought refuge outside their homeland – and Europe has been their main destination. In the IAB Research Report 16/2024 a research team from the IAB has compared the integration of Ukrainian refugees in the labour market in various European read full article