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  Press Releases // 22.07.2024

  “Tax Incentives Should Not Be Viewed in Isolation”

  preparing a growth initiative as part of the 2025 budget, which includes tax concessions for foreign skilled workers. Dr. Katharina Nicolay, deputy head of the “Corporate Taxation and Public Finance” Unit at [...] ZEW Mannheim, comments on that matter: - “Special tax regimes for different groups such as foreign skilled workers, high earners, or pensioners are already widespread in the EU. They differ in their objectives [...] respect to IP boxes). Tax incentives to attract skilled workers should not be discussed in isolation from other measures. The conditions that skilled workers encounter in Germany, such as the lack of reliable
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  News // 25.06.2024

  “More Job Changes Would Benefit Us”

  burden, energy security, and bureaucracy. HB: And the shortage of skilled workers. How can Germany become more attractive to foreign professionals? There are many factors such as a welcoming culture or the [...] energy supply. The uncertainty among businesses is huge. Bureaucracy and the shortage of skilled workers are ongoing issues. The federal government has already initiated some steps in these areas. HB: It [...] is not very attractive in this regard. HB: Finance Minister Christian Lindner has proposed giving foreign professionals discounts on income tax. That might help a bit. But it doesn’t address the issue of
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  Press Releases // 19.06.2023

  Leveraging Labour Market Potentials of Immigrants in Germany

  Since the first recruitment of foreign workers almost 70 years ago, Germany has become the world’s second most important destination for international migrants, after the United States. Despite this fact [...] compare the integration trajectories of various migrant groups, ranging from the so-called guest workers to those who migrated from Eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain, as well as refugees
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  News // 23.06.2023

  #ZEWPodcast: Labour Market Miracle Through Migration?

  less qualified workers is a hot social topic currently. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Labour Minister Hubertus Heil themselves even flew to Brazil in early June to recruit care workers there. But [...] of the EU in 2004 and 2007, as well as the subsequent freedom of movement for workers after seven years, the number of workers doubled from 3 to 6 per cent within a decade. In addition, “Employees from eastern [...] Europe work disproportionately often in occupational fields where there are shortages of skilled workers; that is, occupational fields that have been defined as such by the Federal Employment Agency.” According
• Events // 06.06.2023

  The Effect of Migration on Careers of Natives Evidence From Long-Term Care

  in which they observe the universe of migrant and native long-term care workers. They first show that additional ten foreign workers lead to the displacement of approximately four to five of their native [...] aging has sizable implications for the provision of long-term care. A popular strategy to address worker shortages in the care sector is to increase the inflow of working migrants. In this paper, the authors
• Publications // 12.04.2023

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Local Labor Markets as a Taxable Location Factor? Evidence From a Shock to Foreign Labor Supply

  implemented at a time of skilled labor shortages and led to a substantial inflow of cross-border workers into Swiss border municipalities. Identification rests on exogenous regional variation in treatment
• News // 10.06.2005

  ZEW President Franz on Wage Policy

  as China are increasingly able to meet their own needs through domestic production, while other foreign steel producers like Russia and Brazil have even strengthened their international competitiveness [...] symmetry of the profit-sharing and whether employees will also be obligated to share losses. As workers are unlikely to find loss-sharing palatable, an upper limit for distributed profits could prove a
• Publications // 20.03.2023

  ZEW policy brief - Tailoring Migration Policies to Address Labour Shortages

  also present in some low-skill occupations, and because additional immigrant workers could “free up” native workers to work in shortage occupations or push natives into better jobs. Therefore [...] that immigration from third countries should be increased to alleviate bottlenecks in the supply of workers to the economy. On the one hand, immigration policies should target high-skilled individuals and [...] offer available. Broader policy measures should be put into place to facilitate the recognition of foreign qualifications.
• Projects // 01.03.2007

  Returns to Education and Wage Inequality for Persons with Migration Background in Germany

  person or its physical parents is born abroad and if the persons or his/her parents possesses a foreign citizenship or did so in the past. More than half of the persons with migration background, i.e. [...] and/or the legal status of a German without German nationality (status German). The portion of the foreign population amounts to 9% of the total population in Germany. In that project, the following questions [...] of the different groups of persons with migration background (e.g. repatriates, former immigrant workers) on the basis labour market-relevant characteristics. 2) Determination of the education net yields
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  Press Releases // 04.05.2022

  Does Germany Benefit from Immigration from Eastern Europe?

  than 102 million Eastern Europeans as a result of the EU’s fundamental right to free movement of workers. 18 years after the first enlargement, ZEW economist Dr. Katrin Sommerfeld takes stock in the latest [...] Research · Debates’. She also explains how Germany can continue to benefit from Eastern European workers in the future. - Employees from the so-called EU-8 and EU-2 countries work most frequently in the [...] increase in employment especially in the warehousing industry. “From 2000 to 2010, the share of foreign employees subject to social insurance contributions in Germany was relatively constant at around