{"id":47114,"date":"2026-02-09T09:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iab-forum.de\/?p=47114"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:12:25","slug":"new-data-shows-germany-is-often-just-a-stopover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iab-forum.de\/en\/new-data-shows-germany-is-often-just-a-stopover\/","title":{"rendered":"New data shows: Germany is often just a stopover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"teaser\">Professor Yuliya Kosyakova sums up her new data findings in this video: for many immigrants Germany is just a stopover. Why do so many plan to leave\u00a0 and what could make them stay? Politics, taxes, bureaucracy or is it about belonging?<\/p>\n<p>The IAB, together with the Socio-Economic Panel and the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, surveyed over 50,000 people and received surprising answers.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Further reading<\/h2>\n<p>Yuliya Kosyakova, Lukas Olbrich, Katia Gallegos Torres, Luisa Hammer, Theresa Koch, Simon Wagner: <a href=\"https:\/\/doku.iab.de\/forschungsbericht\/2025\/fb1525en.pdf\">Germany as a stopover? Insights into return and International Mobility Panel of Migrants in Germany (IMPa)<\/a>, IAB-Research Report No 15\/2025en.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>About the person<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iab.de\/en\/employee\/kosyakova-yuliya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuliya Kosyakova<\/a>\u00a0is Head of the Research Department on Migration, Integration and International Labour Market Research at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg (together with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iab.de\/mitarbeiter\/?id=455\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herbert Br\u00fccker<\/a>) and Professor of Migration Research at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-bamberg.de\/en\/sociology\/chairs-and-professorships\/translate-to-english-professur-fuer-migrationsforschung\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Bamberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrapped\" style=\"width: 422px; height: 750px; background-image: url('https:\/\/iab-forum.de\/wp-content\/plugins\/video-embed-privacy\/preview\/clSpzd7CXyk.jpg')\" data-embed-frame=\"&lt;iframe title=&quot;New data shows: Germany is often just a stopover #labourmarket #labourshortage&quot; width=&quot;422&quot; height=&quot;750&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/clSpzd7CXyk?feature=oembed&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" data-embed-play=\"&lt;div class=&quot;small&quot; style=&quot;text-shadow: 0 0 2px black;&quot;&gt;Durch Ihren Klick betten wir das YouTube-Video hier ein (&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.iab-forum.de\/datenschutz\/&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: underline; color: white !important;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;siehe Datenschutzerkl\u00e4rung&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;)\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapped-nojs\">Aktivieren Sie JavaScript um das Video zu sehen.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/clSpzd7CXyk?si=e7t_n3cGX0CnwKSK\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/clSpzd7CXyk?si=e7t_n3cGX0CnwKSK<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"h2\">Video<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/clSpzd7CXyk?si=-LnIi_b6ZyLIRRb4\">video<\/a> can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC2iKUKNND5d1GWJ7YzKo28w\">IAB&#8217;s YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iab-forum.de\/new-data-shows-germany-is-often-just-a-stopover\">DOI: 10.48720\/IAB.FOO.20260209.03<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This publication is published under the following Creative Commons licence: Attribution \u2013 ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/deed.de\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/deed.de<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Yuliya Kosyakova sums up her new data findings in this video: for many immigrants Germany is just a stopover. Why do so many plan to leave\u00a0 and what could make them stay? Politics, taxes, bureaucracy or is it about belonging? The IAB, together with the Socio-Economic Panel and the Federal Office for Migration and <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/iab-forum.de\/en\/new-data-shows-germany-is-often-just-a-stopover\/\">read full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":47464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,1910],"tags":[872,871],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iab-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iab-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iab-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iab-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iab-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47114"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/iab-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47473,"href":"https:\/\/iab-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47114\/revisions\/47473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iab-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iab-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iab-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iab-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}