Abstract
Recent developments in the German demography will give rise to a shortage in skilled workers in the coming decades. A solution to this problem might involve a higher degree of integration of female engineers in the workforce. Data from the German microcensus 2006 confirm the existence of a hidden reserve of female engineers. Ordered response models are used to show that the labour supply in the engineering sector is mainly determinedby age. In addition, the labour supply of female engineers depends on their number of children, and on the age of the youngest child.
Highlights
Due to demographic changes the German economy lacks skilled workers
For a country whose economy is built on engineering in general and automotive engineering in particular, wealth and economic growth depends on the availability of highly educated engineers
One idea might be a better integration of women into the labour market
Summary
Due to demographic changes the German economy lacks skilled workers. That development hits mainly the vocational field of technology and engineering (see Koppel, 2008a, p. 91). One approach might be a better integration of female workers in general into the German labour market. This approach seems to be promising comparing the labour supply of women, mothers in particular, in Germany with many other OECD-countries. The main results, have not changed since the first studies were published during the sixties: Women – in contrast to men – split their time between work and leisure. Important variables are defined and the dataset is screened for descriptive results The main determinants of the labour supply of engineers are detected Based on these results, the number of engineers who are not integrated in the labour market is estimated.
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