The problem with our education system is not academicism, but a lack of integration. No graduation, no exit!

Generation Z – young people born between 1997 and 2012 – are entering the labour market. Given the shortage of skilled workers in many sectors, they can choose their job. And they are not afraid to demand a four-day week, a home office or more salary – at least that's what we keep hearing. But the reality is more nuanced. The growing number of people who can no longer be reached by the labour market poses a much greater risk to the economy than highly qualified but supposedly lazy young people. Andrea Gruß spoke to education expert Dieter Dohmen, Director of the FiBS Research Institute for the Economics of Education and Social Affairs, about this topic.

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