Die ungelernten und die älteren Arbeitnehmer sind die eigentlichen Problemgruppen auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. Zur Bewältigung der Beschäftigungskrise erscheint die Etablierung eines Niedriglohnsektors zwingend geboten. Die Umsetzung dieser Forderung ist jedoch schwierig, da sich nicht...

The essay reports the personal experience of providing policy advice in the early years of the labor market reforms at the beginning of the last decade after the scientific reorientation carried out by the German research institutes on the request of the German Research Council. The Council was...

With banking sectors worldwide still suffering from the effects of the financial crisis, public discussion of plans to place toxic assets in one or more bad banks has gained steam in recent weeks. The following paper presents a plan how governments can efficiently relieve ailing banks from toxic...

The request for a strengthening of academic research at the German economic research institutes by the German Science Council more than a decade ago was founded on the crucial insight that sound policy advice - the traditional task of the institutes - can only be guaranteed in the long term if...