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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.

Journal ArticlesÜbersterblichkeit in Deutschland 2020

Regionale Unterschiede nach Alter, Geschlecht, Monat und Todesursachen

Mühlichen, Michael (2023)

Bevölkerungsforschung Aktuell 5/2023: 3–9

URN: urn:nbn:de:bib-bfa0520236

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, only few studies on excess mortality have considered both regional and cause-of-death variation. Germany is particularly interesting in this context because it was hit very differently by the pandemic across regions. To gain more insights into the potential causes of the spatial variation in excess mortality, we conducted a detailed regional analysis of mortality by age, sex, month and cause of death.