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The fiscal consolidation efforts of Spain, Italy, and Portugal from 2010 to 2014 did not achieve their goal of reducing the debt-to-GDP ratio in any of the three countries. This Economic Bulletin examines why the spending cuts and tax increases, at times drastic, were unsuccessful and...
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current lack of sufficient data. For Germany, simulations by DIW Berlin based on a personal allowance of 250 000 euros (500 …
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. According to the survey, most refugees did not speak any German upon their arrival in Germany-but with time, they approximated … the German language proficiency of Germany's non-refugee migrants. Positively correlated factors include the refugee's age … at the time of immigration as well as his or her prior educational background. Once they were in Germany, refugees …
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In Germany, the majority of people tend to find work through friends, acquaintances, and relatives when they first … groups comprised of individuals that came to Germany for different reasons: labor migrants and family migrants. The analyses … personal contacts were generally less likely to have any knowledge of German and more likely to have had contacts in Germany …
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Women are still in the clear minority among the financial sector's top decision-making bodies. According to DIW Berlin's Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, 21 percent of the supervisory and administrative board members of the 100 largest banks were female. The number has stagnated...
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highest performing companies in Germany (eight percent). In companies with government-owned shares, the momentum has decreased …
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lignite-based electricity well before 2030. Simulations show that the currently authorized lignite mines in eastern Germany …
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government uses in its 'Living Well in Germany' Report to describe quality of life. This report shows that the majority of German …
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). Germany is likewise receiving an above-average number of asylum seekers: Assuming a uniform distribution across all EU … countries, Germany receives three times as many in relation to its total population, and twice as many in relation to its … States to agree on a more uniform - and thus more fair - distribution of the refugees. In Germany, 37 percent of asylum …
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percent of executive board members of the 100 largest banks in Germany. The corresponding figure for the 59 largest insurance …, which was enacted in Germany in May 2015. …
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