Regional Labour Markets Under Pressure to Transform – Different Challenges and Potential for Adaptation

Abstract

"Digitalisation, decarbonisation and demographic change are placing high demands on Germany’s labor markets, although these differ from region to region. Intelligent adaptation measures are needed on both the supply and the demand side. This Zeitgespräch discusses how more flexible working time models can help to further increase the participation rates of older people, women and migrants. How education policy, understood as labor market policy, can provide good starting opportunities to adapt more flexibly to future changes in the world of work. How regionally differing demands on the labor markets can be met. How immigration geared towards the needs of the labor market can help to cushion the challenges of demographic change." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Haas, A., Niebuhr, A. & Vetterer, N. (2024): Regionale Arbeitsmärkte unter Transformationsdruck – unterschiedliche Herausforderungen und Anpassungspotenziale. Teil des Zeitgesprächs "Herausforderungen für die Arbeitsmärkte der Zukunft". In: Wirtschaftsdienst, Vol. 104, No. 8, p. 527-532. DOI:10.2478/wd-2024-0139