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Press releaseCountering the shortage of skilled workers – concrete starting points for the labour market

The skills and labour shortage is already posing major challenges for the labour market in Germany. The BiB has identified in its research ways to offset the future decline in the labour force.

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Miscellaneous PublicationsHave life expectancies in eastern and western Germany converged since reunification?

Pechholdová, Markéta; Grigoriev, Pavel; Meslé, France; Vallin, Jacques (2017)

Population and Societies 544:5: 1–4

DOI: 10.3917/popsoc.544.0001

After diverging when Germany was divided into two separate states, life expectancies in the two parts of the country have converged since reunification. While eastern men have not fully caught up with their western counterparts, eastern Germany is closing the life expectancy gap thanks to improvements in the health system and changes in individual behaviours.