ifo Media Center
The ifo Institute invites you to participate in the discussion of interesting economic topics via the Internet. In our ifo Media Center a whole series of remarkable events are available and can be viewed in full length. We also record selected speeches and presentations given by employees or at events and make them available in our Media Center.
Immigration of Skilled Workers in Germany and Bavaria
1 January – 31 March 2024
PILLARS – Pathways to Inclusive Labour Markets
January 2021 – December 2023
People With a Migration Background and Refugees in Bavaria and Their Importance for the Bavarian Labor Market
July 2022 - November 2022
ifo Podcast: Education on Lockdown – The Corona Record of Schools
Dr. Katharina Werner
Covid-19 has made deficits in schools clearly visible: Too less digital equipment, too less digital competence, and too less flexibility in terms of how learning content is taught. How did schoolchildren cope during the pandemic? Did homeschooling work during the lockdown?
Press conference: The Impact of School Closures in Early 2021
COVID-19 school closures hit low-achieving students particularly hard
A key feature of school closures is that there is no trained educator in the room to help. In their column Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann, and Larissa Zierow argue that low-achieving students are particularly affected by the lack of teacher support. Based on a German time-use survey, it finds that students on average reduced daily learning time by about half during the school closures. This reduction was significantly larger for low-achieving students, who disproportionately replaced learning time with activities deemed detrimental to child development such as computer gaming rather than with more conducive activities such as reading.
The Impact of Childhood Circumstances on Individual Outcomes Over the Life-course
September 2017 - September 2020