The German economy's upward growth trend continues, with the economic output expected to increase by 1.4 percent this year with slightly overloaded capacities. Employment growth remains strong with the creation of 600,000 new jobs, which has in turn led to an increase in private consumption – one of the key growth drivers of the German economy. The higher inflation rates are dampening purchasing power, ...
The cumulative growth rate of the German economy since reunification would have been around two percentage points higher if income inequality had remained constant. This is whatsimulations using the DIW Macroeconomic Model have shown. They were made under the assumption that the income distribution dynamics would not be influenced by any feedback effects of economic growth. In 2015, Germany’s real ...
In spite of persisting unfavorable external economic conditions, the German economy’s upward trend continues, with a growth of 1.2 percent expected for the coming year – slightly less than the 1.8 percent growth rate of 2016, a difference primarily due to the fact that 2017 has fewer workdays. A growth rate of 1.6 percent is expected for 2018. Although employment growth has slowed down somewhat since ...
Supported by dynamic domestic demand, the German economy is expected to grow by 1.7 percent this year. As consumption and investment in construction are likely to weaken in the coming year, is hardly contributing to growth 2017 should amount to roughly 1.4 percent. Foreign trade is contributing relatively little to growth. In both years of the forecast period, capacities will be at more or less normal ...
Nearly 60 percent of globally traded industrial goods are R&D-intensive. Two fifths are goods with very high research intensity (cutting-edge technology), while the remaining three fifths are goods with high research intensity (high-level technology).1 Up until the 1990s, the USA was the global market leader. However, since then, the situation has changed in favor of Germany and remained so despite ...
The strong reliance of the German economy on the industry sector has been a point of criticism for years now. Germany is too strongly focused on export, making it susceptible to crises and fluctuations in demand and exchange rates, the critics allege. A non-critical look at the numbers during the recent economic crisis seems to reaffirm these old concerns: Industrial productivity shrank significantly ...
Ein mehrjähriges öffentliches Investitionsprogramm zur sozialverträglichen Modernisierung und klimaneutralen Transformation der deutschen Wirtschaft bildet den Kern der künftigen Regierungspolitik in Deutschland. SPD, Grüne und FDP haben sich in ihrem Sondierungspapier darauf verständigt, dies unter anderem mit sogenannten „Superabschreibungen“ auf private Investitionen in Digitalisierung und Klimaschutz ...
Die vorübergehende Mehrwertsteuersenkung in der zweiten Jahreshälfte 2020 hat die Wirtschaftsleistung in Deutschland um 0,5 Prozent erhöht. Das zeigen Modellsimulationen am DIW Berlin. Der Effekt auf das Bruttoinlandsprodukt hätte sogar bei rund einem Prozent liegen können – wenn die Mehrwertsteuersenkung vollständig an die VerbraucherInnen weitergegeben worden wäre. Dennoch hat sie ihr Ziel, kurzfristig ...