TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bauer, Thomas K.
AU  - Kunze, Astrid
        TI  - The Demand for High-Skilled Workers and Immigration Policy
        PY  - 2004/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 999
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp999
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - IZA employer survey
KW  - high-skilled workers
KW  - migration
        ER  -