The Demand for High-Skilled Workers and Immigration Policy

Thomas Bauer () and Astrid Kunze

No 999, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries are hired because of a shortage of high-skilled labour. The paper, furthermore, provides a short description of recent German policy initiatives regarding the temporary immigration of high-skilled labour. In view of our descriptive results these temporary immigration policies seem, however, to satisfy only partly the demand of firms interested in recruiting foreign high-skilled workers. A more comprehensive immigration policy covering also the permanent immigration of high-skilled workers appears to be necessary.

Keywords: IZA employer survey; high-skilled workers; migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2004-01
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Published - published in: Brussels Economic Review / Cahiers Economique de Bruxelles, 2004, 47 (1), 1-19

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