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The Ifo Institute has worked out a detailed proposal to reform the system of welfare benefits and made estimates regarding the consequences for employment, distribution of income and fiscal costs. The Ifo proposal aims at making the German labour market functional again without lowering the...
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The study investigates the consequences of EU Eastern enlargement for labour markets and public finances in Germany …. The potential for immigration to Germany from the five largest candidate countries in CEE is forecasted building on …
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The paper discusses the options for a reform of the German pension system using a model developed at CES for the German Council of economic advisors to the Federal Ministry of Economics and Research. It is argued that the German pay-as-you-go-system is efficient in a present value sense but will...
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The unification of Germany is one of the most wrenching and dramatic transitions in economic history. A policy issue of …
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What has happened to the German economic miracle? Rebuilding from the rubble and ruin of two world wars, Germany in the … full employment. Germany (or West Germany, until 1989) returned to its position as the economic powerhouse of Europe and … became the world's third-largest economy after the United States and Japan. But in recent years growth has slowed …
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What has happened to the German economic miracle? Rebuilding from the rubble and ruin of two world wars, Germany in the … full employment. Germany (or West Germany, until 1989) returned to its position as the economic powerhouse of Europe and … became the world's third-largest economy after the United States and Japan. But in recent years growth has slowed …
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Germany is the laggard of Europe, yet the country is world champion in merchandise exports. The paper tries to solve …
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look at the components of this reversal of capital flows for the case of Germany. Its main finding is that most of the … Germany is small by comparison, with purchases of German government bonds increasing substantially, in particular by Spanish … and Irish investors. Some foreign capital even left Germany. In net terms, over the years 2008, 2009 and 2011 foreigners …
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