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Title: The Demand for High-Skilled Workers and Immigration Policy

Author(s): Thomas Bauer and Astrid Kunze

Publication Date: February 2004

Keyword(s): high-skilled worker, immigration policy, iza employer survey and migration

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: This Paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm dataset, 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.

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Bauer, T and Kunze, A. 2004. 'The Demand for High-Skilled Workers and Immigration Policy'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=4274