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Report
The 4th DIW Europe Lecture was held by Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She argued for fundamental reforms of the euro architecture and talked about her ideas for the next steps of economic integration in the eurozone.
You can now find a review including a video of the event, which took place in Berlin on Monday 26.
The DIW Europe Lecture is a lecture ...
27.03.2018| Christiane Zschech
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Press Release
DIW Berlin study analyzes the correlation between the AfD's vote performance and different economic and sociodemographic variables at an electoral district level – The AfD performed well in western German electoral districts where there are many employees in the manufacturing industry and where incomes are low – In the eastern districts they performed better where there is a large share ...
21.02.2018
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Press Release
In important areas such as tax policy, education, and energy, the future grand coalition must be considerably more ambitious – The need for reform in Germany is not being addressed sufficiently
Germany’s next government will most likely once again be a grand coalition. However, the results of the preliminary coalition talks between the Union parties and the SPD, which serve as a basis ...
31.01.2018
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Press Release
DIW Berlin has analyzed the development of the proportion of women in over 500 businesses – There is no indication that the gender quota is affecting executive boards – Banks and insurance companies in particular need to catch up – Politicians and companies must work together
The 30 percent gender quota for supervisory boards is effective: the proportion of women on the supervisory ...
18.01.2018
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Press Release
Joint press release of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Fourteen economists from France and Germany, including Marcel Fratzscher (DIW Berlin) and Clemens Fuest (ifo), are presenting a reform package aimed at making the euro area more robust and more resilient to crises as well as allow ...
17.01.2018
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Press Release
Gert G. Wagner, who served as a member of the German Institute for Economic Research's executive board from 2011 to 2017, will celebrate his 65th birthday on January 5. The economist and social scientist was the head of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) research infrastructure at DIW Berlin from 1989 to 2011 and developed it into the largest and longest-running long-term study on social and economic ...
04.01.2018
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Press Release
On January 1, 2018, Liebig will become director of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a member of the institute’s Executive Board
Stefan Liebig, a professor of sociology at Bielefeld University, will succeed Gert G. Wagner as a member of the German Institute for Economic Research’s Executive Board on January 1, 2018. Having reached retirement age, Wagner (64) is relinquishing his position. ...
01.12.2017
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Personnel news
Nicolas R. Ziebarth (35), a student of the DIW Graduate Center’s first class, was promoted to “Associate Professor with indefinite tenure” in the Department for Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (USA). Ziebarth’s area of research is applied health and labor economics.
“It’s especially remarkable for an economist with a Ph.D. ...
08.11.2017
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Press Release
The youth unemployment is still much higher than the unemployment of those aged 25 years and older – Decrease in unemployment primarily due to a drop in the number of young people and the greater number remaining in education – Political measures against youth unemployment prove ineffective
Although the youth unemployment rate in the EU has plummeted in recent years, it is still difficult ...
02.11.2017
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Comment
The euro area has recently seen some good news. A broad-based economic recovery is under way. Significant institutional reforms have been achieved, particularly in the area of banking union. Significant economic reforms are under way in several countries, including in France. As French and German economists committed to Europe and to the friendship between our countries, we are nonetheless concerned ...
27.09.2017| Marcel Fratzscher
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Economic Bulletin
The German economy is on track for continued growth. Due to the unexpectedly robust first six months of 2017, the German Institute for Economic Research is raising its forecast for GDP growth to 1.9 percent for the current year. This year and arguably for the coming two years, the country’s output will exceed potential output; nonetheless, there is no risk of overheating. Economic growth will ...
08.09.2017
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Economic Bulletin
In the last decade the available labor force has expanded in Germany—despite the decline in the working-age population. The reason: labor market participation has increased, for women in particular and older people in general. Also noticeable was a rise in qualification level because well-educated people have a particularly high propensity to participate in the labor market. Most recently, Germany’s ...
04.09.2017
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In the media
The op-ed by Marcel Fratzscher was first published on FT.com on August 9, 2017.
The gains would outweigh the costs and help chart a path for the continent’s future
As Germany heads towards its general election one of the debates in Berlin and elsewhere is what course the next government will pursue on Europe. In particular there is much speculation about a possible “grand bargain” ...
15.08.2017
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Economic Bulletin
This report examines how income groups and forms of employment in Germany have changed in the past two decades. Since the mid-1990s, inequality in disposable household income in Germany has generally increased. This trend was in effect until 2005. While fewer people had disposable incomes in the median range, the proportion of the population at both tails of the income distribution increased. At the ...
14.07.2017| Christian Franz, Marcel Fratzscher, Peter Krause
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Interview
Mr. Krause, you took a close look at income groups in Germany. What did you hope to accomplish?
Peter Krause: We wanted to bring together two discussion threads in our study. One thread has to do with the long-term trend in inequality of household income distribution and the other, with changes in labor force participation. Until the mid-2000s, inequality in disposable household income increased and ...
14.07.2017| Christian Franz, Peter Krause
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Economic Bulletin
Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences between women’s and men’s education and career choices, and the labor market disparities that result. The experiments presented here show that even though women are less willing than men to compete against others, they are just as willing as men are to take on the challenge of ...
31.05.2017| Johanna Mollerstrom, Katharina Wrohlich
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Economic Bulletin
For many years, only better-paid workers benefited from Germany’s real wage increases. In contrast, dependent employees with lower hourly wages suffered substantial losses, while the low-wage sector expanded. Around 2010, these trends came to an end. Now all wage groups benefit from wage increases—even if those in the middle of the distribution lag somewhat behind. At the very least, this ...
24.05.2017| Karl Brenke, Alexander S. Kritikos
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Interview
Mr. Kritikos, you’ve investigated the development of gross hourly wages in Germany. How have these wages developed since Germany’s reunification?
Immediately after reunification, there were substantial hourly wage increases, up through 1997 or 1998. After that, growth was minimal through 2004, followed by wage losses until 2010. Since 2010, after the financial crisis, wages started picking ...
24.05.2017| Alexander S. Kritikos
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In the media
The op-ed by Marcel Fratzscher was first published on foreignpolicy.com on March 16, 2017.
If Trump wants a Europe that takes care of its own needs, he needs a strong partner in Berlin.
Donald Trump’s relationship with Angela Merkel has gotten off to a rocky start. Trump has, effectively, singled out Germany and its chancellor as his main nemesis in Europe. He has criticized her for her policy ...
17.03.2017
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Report
On Monday, Maurice Obstfeld, IMF chief economist and former economic advisor of Barack Obama, commented on the new IMF-Paper „Labor and product market reforms in advanced economies: fiscal costs, gains, and support” during a DIW Berlin event about „The role of fiscal policy in advancing structural reforms in Europe“. The paper concludes that reforms do not just grow the ...
14.03.2017