The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) conducts research on the labour market in order to advise political actors at all levels in a competent manner. Economists, sociologists and researchers from other social science and methodological disciplines create the base for empirically well-informed labour market policy by way of excellently linked research, both nationally and internationally.

Topics: labour market policy; stuctural change and the labour market; international and regional labour markets; education and labour market;migration and integration; labour force participation, poverty and social policy; social protection; digital and ecological transformation