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GDP is set to grow by 1.8 percent this year and 1.9 percent next year – the global economy is slowly picking up steam, and the euro area is showing solid growth performance – possible risks such as Greece leaving the euro area are creating a strain on the economy The German economy is continuing on an upward trend but, due to unexpectedly weak growth at the beginning of the year, will ...
Dr. Fichtner, will the German economy perform as well in the second half of 2015 as it did in the first half of the year? We assume that the German economy will lose some of its momentum. One-off effects such as plummeting oil prices played a major role in the strong gains made during the winter months. These effects are now petering out but, nevertheless, economic growth in Germany is expected to ...
The SOEP’s 2014 Wave Report has just been published. It provides an overview of the SOEP’s activities in 2014. The Wave Report covers TNS Infratest’s report on fieldwork for the thirtyfirst wave of SOEP-Core, the integration of the Family in Germany sample into SOEP-Core and the fourth boost sample of SOEP-IS. Short research papers by members of the SOEP group in this year’s ...
This article analyses how the presence of a dominant group of voters within the electorate affects voter turnout. Theoretically, we argue that both the absolute size and the relative power of a dominant group influence voters' decision-making process. The former effect derives from increased free-riding incentives and reduced social pressure to vote within a larger dominant group, while the latter ...
In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the last two years of the observation period ...
