%0 Report
        %A Bauer, Thomas K.
%A Kunze, Astrid
        %T The Demand for High-Skilled Workers and Immigration Policy
        %D 2004
        %8 2004 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 999
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp999
        %X 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.
        %K IZA employer survey
%K high-skilled workers
%K migration