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DIW Wochenbericht 10 / 2000
Gelegentlich wird die Befürchtung geäußert, Deutschland sei im Wettbewerb um ausländische Besucher nicht attraktiv genug. Immerhin jedoch zeigten die deutschen Reiseeinnahmen in den letzten Jahren eine durchaus erfreuliche Entwicklung. Zwar ist der strukturelle Negativsaldo Deutschlands im internationalen Reiseverkehr nach wie vor hoch; im Jahre 1999 lag er schätzungsweise bei 56 Mrd. DM - rund 2,6 ...
2000| Renate Filip-Köhn
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DIW Weekly Report 4 / 2026
The proportion of women on the executive and supervisory boards of Germany's largest companies has risen considerably since data collection for the DIW Women Executives Barometer began 20 years ago. While it was just over one percent on the executive boards of Germany's 200 highest-revenue companies in 2006, it is now around 19 percent. The proportion of women on supervisory boards in the top 200 group ...
2026| Arianna Antezza, Alina Meiner, Katharina Wrohlich
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DIW Weekly Report 45/46 / 2025
Attitudes toward the roles of women and men in society have become more egalitarian in Germany and most countries around the world since World War II. Recently, however, this process has slowed significantly, even reversing in some places. In most countries, the attitudes of the youngest ten age groups surveyed are hardly any more egalitarian than those of the ten age groups before them. In about a ...
2025| Lukas Menkhoff, Katharina Wrohlich
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DIW Weekly Report 41 / 2025
With the 2021 introduction of Germany’s basic pension, longterm insured persons with low incomes can receive a supplement to their statutory pension. In 2024, around 1.4 million recipients received an average pension increase of 100 euros as a result. Data from the German Pension Insurance show that women especially benefit from the basic pension supplement. At the same time, it is striking that people ...
2025| Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Lukas Harder
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DIW Weekly Report 29 / 2025
As the baby boomer generation enters retirement, the payas- you-go pension system in Germany is under an increasing amount of pressure. Relevant changes, in particular higher contribution rates or lower pension levels, are causing tension between generations: Either the financial burden on the younger generations is increased or the risk of insufficient pensions and old-age poverty for the elderly ...
2025| Stefan Bach, Maximilian Blesch, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Stefan Klotz, Bruno Veltri
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DIW Weekly Report 27/28 / 2025
The previous federal government coalition had planned to pay private households a climate dividend to offset rising carbon prices; a payout process was even prepared. However, the climate dividend is nowhere to be seen in the new federal government’s coalition agreement. In the long term, a social compensation mechanism will be important, as prices for fossil and heating fuels will continue to rise ...
2025| Stefan Bach, Rebecca Engelhardt, Lars Felder, Peter Haan, Renke Schmacker
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DIW Weekly Report 25/26 / 2025
The new German federal government coalition is planning a significant tax break for workers of retirement age: the active pension (Aktivrente). With the active pension, workers who have reached the statutory retirement age may earn up to 2,000 euros a month tax-free, a move that the government is hoping will motivate more pensioners to work longer to counteract the skilled worker shortage. Microsimulation ...
2025| Stefan Bach, Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Joris Pieper
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DIW Weekly Report 18/19 / 2025
The average gender pay gap in Germany is 16 percent according to the most recent data. On the occasion of the 2025 Equal Pay Day, this Weekly Report using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data shows that considerable differences according to age and level of education are hiding behind this average gap. For example, the gender pay gap increases significantly with age for people of all educational backgrounds ...
2025| Fiona Herrmann, Katharina Wrohlich
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DIW Weekly Report 12/13 / 2025
The gender pension gap, the difference in pension entitlements between men and women, is 32 percent for 60-yearolds according to data from the German Pension Insurance (Deutsche Rentenversicherung). In addition, there is a considerable motherhood pension gap: Statutory pension entitlements for mothers and childless women differ greatly. Pension-related childcare credits, which were introduced in 1986 ...
2025| Peter Haan, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Sarah Schmauk, Tatjana Mika
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DIW Weekly Report 3/4 / 2025
In 2024, the share of women on the top decision-making boards of the largest companies in Germany increased. A solid 19 percent of all executive board members at the 200 largest companies are now women, and almost 26 percent of members at the 40 largest listed companies are women. The financial sector is also catching up in this regard. Moreover, legal requirements, such as the inclusion requirement ...
2025| Virginia Sondergeld, Katharina Wrohlich, Anja Kirsch