Youths often accept compromises when choosing vocational training since they navigate between personal interests and market conditions. The discrepancy between occupational aspirations at school and the actual occupation trained for varies between different groups of young people.

The article focusses on youth joblessness in times of the Covid-19 crisis in Germany and the United Kingdom.

The new “European Labour Market Barometer” reflects the expected short-term development of unemployment and employment in the European labour market.

Studying trade flows between China and Germany in February 2020 gives a clear picture of what happens when a major shock affects a single trading partner.

Participation in vocational further training is unequally distributed among different groups. Migrants daughters often participate in further training. Men, who immigrated themselves, seldom take part in further training,

The extent to which jobs in the German federal state could be replaced by digitisation largely depends on sectoral and occupational structure in the region.

The German Bundestag and Bundesrat passed a Coronavirus Tax Relief Act on 29 June 2020 that involves the first key elements of a large scale economic recovery programme, designed to get the German economy out of the crisis “with a ka-boom“. Some thoughts on the stimulus package by IAB Director Bernd Fitzenberger.

IAB researcher Regina Konle-Seidl presents in this interview her research results on short-time work in Europe in the Corona crisis.

Interview with ILO telework expert Jon Messenger