@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp999,
            	author={Bauer, Thomas K. and Kunze, Astrid},
            	title={The Demand for High-Skilled Workers and Immigration Policy},
            	year={2004},
	month={Jan},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={999},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp999},
	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},
            }